OPAWA BOWLING CLUB'S CONCERT.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17938, 5 December 1923, Page 12

OPAWA BOWLING CLUB'S CONCERT.

A concert arranged by Mr Alfred Worsley for tli© funds of tii© Opa-wa IBowling Club will be held in the Jelliooe Hall, Gloucester street, to-morrow evening. The feature of tho concert will be a new bowling song, composed by Mr Worsley, and sung by Mr W. A. Drake. Among the performers will be members of the Christchurch Liedertafel.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE, Two big features, offsetting tho other, added to an excellent musical programme' makes ihU week's show tt Everybody's TLe;uro one o: undoubted merit. For thrills, for climaxes,. and anti-climaxes, and for general perfection, one could not choose a better motion picture production than J.he Tiger s Claw, which hends th® present bill. As a picture it has a gripping interest which holds throughout, but evon beyond that it lava claim—and justly so—to an originality which is all its own. Somehow or other lh 0 story seems to impress one in a manner vrhicii is entirelv in the more usual typo of production of tha day. Both in cast and in detail everything that could bo done to turn out a firs't-olass picture has been accomplished, alK i result is entirely satisfactory both from a dramatic and spectacular point of view Tho story is' unique as far as the theme of screen productions goes. It tells of an American engineer who is superintending th» building of o huge irrigation darn m° the hills country of India. While out on some survey work he saves a half-caste Hindu girl ii'om a tiger, but in 60 doing ia severely injured himself, and tho girl nurses him through one of those terrible jungle fevers which are eo dangerous to the white man. In gratitude he marries her, but his cup of happiness is rather upset by the appearance of a former sweetheart who has Bet out from England to find bim. H<j\v the story works out to a conclusion "which is satisfactory to all, forms the basis of the plot of this most interesting picture. Smartness, piquancy, and genuine entertainment are personified in "Enter Madamc," tho "brilliant comedv trhicTi is shown in support. Many are the amusing interludes which relieve tho thread of dr&ma which run 3 throughout the theme, and instead of _ being heavy, "Enter Madame" is as diverting and entertaining as a film play could well ho. The orchestra excels itself, and well deserves tho praise which is extended to it.

GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. "Merry-Go-Bound" is tha very apt namo of the great attraction at Greater Crystal Palace this week. At first glanoe tha title may seem inconsequential, but after seeing tha play one has to admit it is aptly named, and that there is a bigger thought behind it than would at first appear. Though thera are innumerable scenes of splendour in tha play, the central interest of +ie plot revolves around a little Viennese waif —a girl who ekes out an existence by playing an organ for the pleasure-seekers of the Prater —the Coney Island of Vienna as slj£ w»3 before tho war—tho playground of tha real cosmopolitan—is pictured with wonderful accuracy. Apart from tho lino scenic effects in tho picture, and tho wonderful attention to detail, there is a story which overshadows everything else, as a good plot should do. Every moment ot the romance of Agnes, the little working girl who falls in love with a real prince, is of dramatic interest. Life deals very cruelly with hey, and love does not bring its reward as quickly at is does in tho usual love story of the day, but the trials to which she ia subjected, and the hard blows Which fate deals her, are of life as it w lived not as ths usual etory writer and picture director would make -it. When Agnes finds ths "Prince Charming" who haa come into her life is not a salesman, but a true "prince of the blood," her hopes of earthly happiness are shattered. While the audience sympathises with the girl, it' also haa sympathy with the prince, who is a manly fellow, but so tied by tha /Conventions ol the social epliere to which he has been born that he finds it impossible to avoid a, State-made marriage. The fifth ch&ptet of "The Eagle's Talona" (serial), a briglj Century oomedy, and the latest International News film completes a programme which does credit to Greater Crystal Palace. Tha music is up to the standard set ljjf the theatre.