AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"ON OUR SELECTION." Business Agent: Good morning, Dad. How is that new hand I sent you getting on? Is he working any faster than the last one? Dad: Cripes, whadyer mean; faster; Why, he's the slowest coot you've sent me. Its two weeks now since I sent him into town to pay last month's bills for me, and he ain't back yet. By cripes, he s slow. ROXY AND TIVOLI. Imagine Tom Mix as a rough and ready cowboy from Texas storming a politically undermined Balkan kingdom; imagine him and his pals shooting up the long-bearded bad men in time to save a ten-year-old king from death; imagine Tom Mix staging his famous Wild West circus in a moving picture. All these and other, thrills are provided in My Pal, the King," which conies to the Roxy and Tiyoli Theatres to-morrow at the change of programme. The story concerns a wild west show and its adventures while playing in the tiny kingdom of Alvoma, and there are plenty of sensations the while Tom Mix and his men frustrate the efforts of a bad gang to spirit away a young king. "Love is a Racket is the second big picture on the new programme, and here ia a fast-moving story, modern in plot, action and setting. Doug. Fairbanks, jun., is starred as a columnist, who writes about love affairs, and eventually becomes entangled in one himself. He then finds that he is embroiled in a series of unexpected happenings which turn out very different from what life jdeae had been Playing leading roles with Fairbanks are Ann Dvorak. Lee Tracy, Frances Dee, Lysle Talbot and Warren Hymer. AMATEUR COMPETITIONS. Six classes were finalised at the West End Theatre last night in connection with the Auckland amateur competitions. Miss Jeane Home officiated as judge, and declared the following awards: Song and dance, open, !N~ekla Ashdown; tap dance, open, Joan Tucker; toe dance, open, Joyce Marmont; toe dance, junior, r Peggy Ituane; eong and dance duo, open, Teenie Petersen and Joyce Chapman; double tap, open, Joyce Trainer and June Breere. Mr. Geo. Meder secured a first award in the harmonica section. The above-men-tioned will appear at the Empress Theatre to-night and receive their presentations. To-night will take the form of a demonstration concert. RIVOLI RINK. The skating season at the Rivoli Rink will close to-night with a monster masquerade carnival, which will continue till everyone is "deliciously tired." As a fitting wind-up a special programme has been arranged, and prizes will foe awarded for the best costume, most comical, most original, and best national. A balloon fight and battle of streamers are also included, and the evening promises to afford skaters the utmost enjoyment.