AMUSEMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 279, 25 November 1941, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

"THi: QUAKER Uini." Probably one of the most popular comic operas staged during' the last 20 years. "The Quaker Girl." which is to be presented by the Auckland I.ight Opera Company for a season of seven nights, begin- ' ning at His Majesty's Tlieaire on Saturdav afternoon and evening. is causing a Ihrpamount of interest The music is of vow high s'andard arid the comedy scenes are really hilarious. The operetta, too. lends itself to picturesque stage settings. Outstanding features of the production should be the work of the chorus of 100 voices and the operatic orchestra. EXTERTAIX MEX T GUIDE CIVIC SQUARE—Amusement Park. H.M. THEATRE—"Rebecca." ST. JAMES'—spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in "Men Of Boys' Town." EMI* ASSY—Charles Eoyer and Olivia de HaviUand in "Hold Bark The Dawn." PLAZA—Michael Redgrave and Diana Wynyard in "Kipps." REGENT—Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in "CeucSit in the Draft." | STRAND—Jeanette Mac Donald and Nelson Eddy in "Bitter Sweet." CENTURY—MerIe Oberon and Alan Marshal in "Lydia." boxy-Charles Quierley in "Secret Evidence" and Fay Wray in "Melody For Three." OXFORD—Dorothy Lamour in "Chad Hanna" and Virginia Oilmore in "Jennie." ClVlC—Marlene Dietrich and Roland Young in "The Flame Of New Orleans." MAJESTIC—WaIIace Beery in "The Bad Man" and Richard Arlen in •Mutiny in the Arctic." STATE (Oneliunga)-—"The Rains Came." STRAND (Onchuuga)—"Larger Thr.n Life" and "Tom Sawyer, Detective." TUDOR—"A Little Bit Of Heaven." VICTORIA —"Fower and Glory" and "Tilly Of Bloomsbury." VOGL'T—"Pride and Prejudice." VICTORY (Green Lane)— Opening Shortly. AVON (Newton)—" Chad H.mna" nnd "Jennie." ASTOR —"Dance, Charlie. Dance" and "Mickey the Kid." ADELPIiZ —"Tarnished Angel" and "Pardon Our Nerve." AMBASSADOR —"Prison Farm" and "So This Is | Lcndon." BRITANNIA —"Phantom Raiders" and "Santa Fe Marshal." I BERKELEY (Mission Bay)—" Theodora Goes Wild." I CAPITOL—"Adam Had Four Sons" and "The I Navy Steps Out." CRYSTAL PALACE—"Tower Of London" and "Private Affairs." DE LUXE —"New Moon." GAIETY (Takapana)—"Till We Meet Again." GREY LYNN—"Ex Champ" and "Code of the Streets." NEW ROYAL—"Under Cover Doctor" and "Girl

From College." PEERLESS (St. Helier's) —"Four Daughters." PRINCESS —"Peck's Bad Boy At the Circus" and "Mr. Moto's Vacation." PRINCE EDWARD —"Spy For a Day" and "Christmas In July." REGAL —"Mr. Doodle Kicks Oil" and "Timber Stampede." BEGEXT (Epsonr)—.'Climbing High." RIALTO—"Tower Of London" and "Private Affairs." 1 STATE (Symonds Street)—" Little Nellie Kelly." STATE (Devonport)—"They Met In Argentina" and "Overland Express." TlVOLl—"Twelve crowded Hours" and "Meet the Girls." RADIO PROGRAMMES HA—7.lO p.m.. Talk by the Gardening Expert: 8.50, Albert Ketelby and his Concert Orchestra; 9.30. Fashions in melody: A studio Eresentation, featuring Ossie Cheesman; 10.0. >ance M'Uic; 10.15. Repetition of Greetings from the Boys Overseas. ZTA—7.4S p.m.. "The Lyric Suite," Grieg; 8.0, Ignaz Friedman, eminent Polish pianist. Concert relayed from Wellington Town Hsli; 10.0, "Music at your Fireside." 1YX —8.23 p.m.. Helnrich Schlusnus (baritone); 8.31, Walter Glesklng (piano): 9.39, Ebe Stlgnani (mezzo-soprano); 10.0, Variety. 1ZM —7.0 p-m-. Orchestral music; 7.48, "The Circle of Shiva"; 6.0. Concert; #.0, Humorous and miscellaneous items.