THRILLS FOR EYE & EAR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 10

THRILLS FOR EYE & EAR

MASSED MUSIC AND -re SPECTACLES :( EAGER INQUIRY FOR SEATS --' From Nelson and Motueka and-from many parts of Wellington' province eagerinquiries have come for reserved seits "at" Newtown Park for the great Searchlight Tattoo and Historic Pageant of Queens. It is evident that /when the box plang^ are opened at The Bristol at 9 . o'clocKMonday morning the booking business will be very brisk. . .'•. , "'< Auckland's tally of 130,000 for five wghts and one afternoon included many ciii^er^a who', were so delighted with • the fasejnat-; ing spectacles" and-music that they „'went several times ?o the Domain, but a^'ihet. close of the season there were some'thouy sands, of people who -regretted that they 1 had missed the opportunity, for the riiosfr thrilling entertainment ever providedvin. Auckland. A keen demand set in for.'an> extension of the season, but this was.4nif possible,' because Auckland's share of-,,tb,et. wonderful Brock fireworks was limited to.. five nights, and the costumes of the qu&cOi and maids of honour and the imifortfis^of; the "Campaigners of a Thousand I'ears" had to be released for- "Wellington. Siiiiilarly' the ■ season in Wellington canndt go beyond the five nights and one afternoon? ("Living Flag day), for which arrange-;: meuts have been made, as the historic "properties" have to move on to Christ-, church. ; With fine . weather the.; attendance scores at Newtown Park should surpass even Auckland's big figures, as Wellington will, have sixty-six ladies for the vqueea pageant (by comparison with Auckland's thirty-one), nearly, four hundred-- "Living Lamps" for the "Glow-lamn^- March." (twice as' many as Auckland had),'- an,d other very" important extras, such as'r.tKe combined choir of 300 voices'and the'military tournament (which will serve as a "curtain-raiser," beginning at 7 p.m./'foc the Pageant, timed for 7.40). -'•-•■ *