ENGLISH PARK STADIUM.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 29 December 1924, Page 6

ENGLISH PARK STADIUM.

* NEW YEAR'S EVE SPORTS. What promises to he one of the best evening entertainments ever seen in Christchurch will take place on Wednesday. The programme comprises cycling, running, novelty races,, fireworks, and jazzing. The cycling and running events are always popular with the public, but with novelty events: fireworks, specially designed and imported at very considerable cost, and jazzing in the New Year, it should prove a fine-night. Tha track and grounds are in perfect condition, and with two entrances from Trafalgar street and one from Cranford street, and with epecial trams and buses the public should be -well catered for.

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[ r-HXNY SoE; IX "LU-'-'K." ! E.'rHAriD TALMADGE IX "OX TtME." i ~ - •n ■ ! ! The ma^ag" - o; tjif'i''T t_ry~--a. Palace. I If.- V. M. Beo'e. ha.-: arranged « bit: holiday j I "i-onamrai' for "a:3 wee.-r, commencing to- j ■ da-. L'. ;s headed- .;v ~ picr:;rc which ia.; i >e«>i hrra- -ied as the bi-zc" laugh-rro'.r.cr r.r ! i ;ho soa.-ion. T'nis picture. "Luck," Is a Srl.-.- [ r.:ok attraction, and has 10-linny Hines and '- Violet Merscrea::. in 'he leading roles. This is the rirst. time these no young and equal 17 , fatnota screen stars have -vori.'-.d roe»th»r 'in a. pio'iire. Tlv» event is particular', v a::=- | p.oous. as i* marks the reappearance oil the, f screen of Miss Mersereau, who ha 3 been in j retirement for "ho la3t. ypnr devoted V, the- ! s--;d>- of -he .-crern art. Mr Hines. who -j ' a.-, we'l-known en *h,-. staire ,11 ••r> •>-,.-, scr.-.en. I 1= -e-i-H :.-> 00 drvotini himself to r'Ctiii-.s j cxe'.'isi"eiy now, and '"lii con'mii" "he po'.:>-7 jof nubri feature oomod-.- productions. : "Luck" is the third fnil-!rr~*h screen chare.-. : . *»ri.= ,i:[.mi wh>h this versatile youns man has • »i ••"■P;T'C.I following 'fl* 1 amazing popularity he j, ;;r,on '. he - iaiuo'w I "Torciiv" aeries of ;«'fi-r»cl comed;o.= . The j first ♦•••o Tr-r- caiied "Burn 'rim Up i Bars' 1 ?." and "Su>-e Fire Flint." both ot ; winch scored instant success ait over the world. ?*ew York critica have compared j Jobnn- Iflnea'.i ".vork 'o that, of Liord. bur, ! Hines's "vt-rk ear-not b<» compared to thar. of any other. He ia as individual as Lloyd j or Chaplin. That is 33 far :i3 an" compariI son fan he mado. Hincs has developed a I comedy technique all his own, and, it, is bearing irui'-, ai his growing popularity j a " <■<! t ?. "On Tiir.e." af. on,-e a. supremely t'nnilir? I and "rnu'erous'iy funny photoplay, i Rirhard Taitnadre. '•'ne. dare-devil performer J of lirath-defvinrr st-untj. in the lea<im;r roie, i ia the ?eoond hi? pictiiri on the ne.w pro- | ~ramrae. "On Time'' ;n an eii-eptionilly 1 virjd rnelodrairiA of startling motives and j dertded'- Te ir d action. •vh.tch "TTeg »•; ! tirecs into uproarious farte. Tt Heala -nth unoertain and rn']rh-<:rofsed road to aucre=fl of Harr-7 Willis, a, roun? man of phirk : and ambition, 3.3 played by Richard Tal- ! rcfldze. Xaturally there is a, .sirl, the sa.me ! n oe. at thi» betTJnnin? and, at the end of the, i "oiiri'7 man's adventures. In the unfolding of thnllinc events there, is a. capture of th*» by Chinamen, and a, sensational rescue in their den, where the hero .fights singlehanded the entire ton?. It ic hard Talniadjre performs the full quota, of startling stunts, such as a. jump from, the top of a telegraph pole, aeven storeys in the air, to the root ot' an adjoining house. Supporting the stunt king in "On Time'' are such well and favourably known players as Billie Dove, playing- the leading female role, I GeorSe Siegm«n, Stuart Holmea, Tom Wilaon, Charles Clary, and Doug-las Gerard. Besides the t-vo main, pictures, there ia a. very funny Cenhiry comedy and the latest International 2Cews film. Incidental to and in conjunction with. the. screening of the various motion pictures the big Symphony Orchestra, under the diatinfi:isried conductorship of Mr Alfred .!. Bum, will present a magnificent musical ..programme, which includes __ the following classical ;ind popular numbers:— Overture, "Raymond" (Thomas): '"Symphony No. 3, Ist movement'' (Beethoven); "Vieiflc Loure'' (B-Tch); "'Rigatidon" (Xaviere); "Suite" (Poulds); "To-uighfs tie Night" ("Rubens);. "Harvest Time" (Haydn, Wood)'; "The Lightning Switch" (Alford), "Sylvia" (Thiere), soloist, Hr A. Amos; "A Motor Ride"' (Bider). The bos pj,an is at The Bristol, or aeat3 may be reserved by telephoning Greater Crystal Pala-ce, number 37jS. STRAND THEATRE. "THE THEILL CHASER" AND "HIS MYSTERY GIRL." "The ThriiL Chaser," starring Hoot Gibson, head-s tho bill a; the Strand Theatre this week. Omar E. Jenkin3 reads Omar Kahyyanx, but he does not know what it ia all about until he is sitting one day im.de r 3, tree on. the ranch and. "Thou" -walks around the tree. "Zhou" in this case is a girl who has walked, too far from, her "stalled" train. Omar hops on. a. horseand lifts her up on it whilst moving. Then Omar goes to the movies, whera eticb. feats of horseniarjisliip will be appreciated—-at thTee thousand a -week. He gets three dollars a day and xuina some of the best Scenes Hob«rt Henley and King Baggot ertr directed, or Mary Philbin, Laura La. Plante, Norman Kerry or Reginald Denny ever played in. From the stunt of "doubling" for atimid star he goes to the faster adventure of "doubling" for % sheik in Arabia. There hus "Thou" is the importaoit factor in as thick a plot as a. bunch of eheika ever concocted to tangle themselves in. But 'Thou" is a, very appreciative Arabian eheikess *nd Omar is not all alone in his tattle The second feature is Herbert Rawlinson in "His Mystery Girl." Other films are "The Caddy" (.Buddy Messinger comedy),' "The Ghost City" (Ep. 1*) and International New*.