WEATHER FORECAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 3

WEATHER FORECAST.

FOR CITY AND PROVINCE. The Government meteorologist muM to the "Auckland Star" this afternoon the following special weather forecast for the Auckland Province Iβ as far south as Hamilton, Kawhia and Tauranga.— Moderate southerly to easterly winds, fresh at times in exposed positions. Isolated showers are possible, but the weather will be mainly fair to fine, though cold, with inland frosts. Moderate seas. An intense anti-cyclone is moving on to the Dominion from the Taaman Sea, the highest pressure being in the south. HAURAKI GULF CONDITION*. The following report of weather conditions in the Hauraki Culf was received from Tiritiri Island at noon to-day:— Wind, south, light; sea, slight; weather, fine and clear; visibility, good; barometer, rising.

To the intermittent diunder of the •blitzkrieg, tbe seductive swirl of skirts in the ongial French Can-Can ballet (by special request) and the almost continuous roarings of an appreciative the Auckland University College Srudenlt' revue opened its season to a packed house [ at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall lon Saturday night. Timely, as ever, "Hell Hath Xo Fuehrer," or, if you prefer it, "The Wizard of Oztria,"' deals, as its alternative title suggests, with the fashionable sport of international politics and gives an intriguing and absolutely uncensored insight into the private lives of those captains of uestiny, Chamberlain, Hider and Stalin. The plot ueals with the fortunes of a group of factory workers with a penchant for dhoral speaking ("after the style of the Moscow Art Theatre, the W.E.A., and the Department of English" I. who are dominated in CUrn by Stalin (portrayed as an American gangster by David Clouston) and Hitler (Alan Gifkiiis). The situation is saved by the entry upon the ecene of the hero, Xeyille Chamberlain (Vern Kont), who, with the aid of his trusty umbrella and a display of fisticuff.*, lays both the villains low and gains The confidence of ohe workers. The story touches lightly in passing upon tile love adventures of Xeville Chamberlain, and then wanders into a somewhat bewildering maze of intrigue, from which it emerges that (a) Chamberlain, urged on by Winston Churchill ("call me Winnie"), has declared war on the Hitler-Stalin partnership, and ;b) Chamberlain's fiancee (a beautiful Secret Service agent) has been captured by the two villains, wiho have taken refuge in the neutral territory of the Horse's Xeck Cafe. An impasse has been reached, and matters are not helped by rbe decision of Hitler, egged on by his confrere, to win the love of Angelica by treating her with sympathy "like a small neutral." In the subsequent melee the neutrality of the Horse's Xeck Cafe appears to be overlooked, but thk email point fades into insignificance as righr triumphs over might and the audience draws a shuddering breath of relief as the dramatic moment passes.

Not strictly relevant to the story, but inclined ro illustrate that true art can never be overlooked, is "The Ballet of Daphne and Apollo." It Jβ alt good clean tun. and the highest praise must tzo to Charles Zambuccu and his associate*;, who wrote and produced the show. Neither should the Cappinz Book, in which the programme is included, be overlooked, containing as it does some of the hijrhest flights of College lirerary fancy. The show is to l>e repeated nightly this week, and it is hoped that, if arrangements can be made, a performance will be given at Papakura at a later date.

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Hotel Cargen.—Mr. L. 0. Araott, Cantain V. G. Webb, Mr. L. E. B3ake (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. T. Buesst (Melbourne), Mr. and Mrs. D. Galbraith (Sydney}.

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