RADIO PROGRAMMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 6

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Today's radio programmes will be found on page 19.

TIVOLI THEATRE. Reuniting four who contributed so largely to the success of "Topper," a few months ago, "Merrily We Live," which is showing at the Tivoli Theatre, has Constance Bennett as one of its stars and Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray heading the supporting cast. Sharing stellar honours with Miss Bennett is Brian Aherne. In the guise of a tramp who is in reality a novelist, he is admitted to the Kilbourne mansion and given the post of chauffeur. He stays on to gain material for a novel, and because he has fallen in love with the debutante daughter, Jerry, played by Miss Bennett. Miss Bennett plays the part with zest and apparent delight in its many sidedness. In "Strange Boarders," the associate film, Tom Walls, in his role of Secret Service agent, hopes to discover the identity of an international spy who has been clever enough to obtain copies of new aeronautical plans from the stronghold of a Government office. RIVOLI THEATRE. Reuniting four who contributed so largely to the success of "Topper," a few months ago, "Merrily We Live," which is showing at the Rivoli Theatre, has Constance Bennett as one of its stars and Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray heading the supporting cast. Sharing stellar honours with Miss Bennett is Brian Aherne. In the guise of a tramp who is in reality a novelist, he is admitted to the Kilbourne mansion and given the post of chauffeur. He stays on to gain material for a novel, and because he has fallen in love with the debutante daughter, Jerry, played by Miss Bennett. "Four Men and a Prayer," the famous "Cosmopolitan Magazine" story by. David Garth, is the associate feature. Loretta Young is featured, with Richard Green, the new star discovery, as her leading man. George Sanders, David Niven, and C. Aubrey Smith are also featured in the story of four gallant brothers pledged to a quest that mocks at death. PERRY'S CERCUS. Acts from all parts of the world, acts which are sensations, novelties, fun, and excitement are presented in Perry Brothers' Circus, which is at the Winter Show Building, Wellington. Aero- ; batics, tumbling, ladder and perch pole balancers, trapeze artists, head bal- i ancers, jugglers, rope spinners, wire- j walkers, springboard and risley artiste,' women and men riders, contortionists, performing dogs, sheep, horses, lions, ; tigers, and elephants, are shown. This entertainment the public can see again ! and again, so full is it of that joyous modernistic merriment and originality. Eighteen cages of wild jungle animals and a herd of elephants are on view between 4 and 5 p.m. every day. GALA CARNIVAL. What promises to be the most elaborate carnival ever staged in the Wellington district is to open next Saturday at the Lower Hutt Recreation Grounds. Conceived on a lavish scale, the carni- > val will continue daily until Monday night, April 10. The preliminary event is to be a monster procession in which all industries in the district will be represented. The decorated floats have been modelled on the designs seen in the- recent sesquicentennial procession held in Sydney. The chosen carnival queens with their attendants will participate. The Chinese residents in the Hutt Valley are preparing a decorated float for the procession. It will be the most spectacular procession ever witnessed in the district, and is expected to be a mile long. The procession will start from Buick Street, Petone, at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday, and will travel ! to Lower Hutt. On Saturday afternoon there is to be a big athletic sports gathering on the Hutt Recreation Grounds, commencing at 2.30 p.m., and ! in the evening at 8 p.m. the main at- I traction will be comedy sports. The committee has provided a wide range of sideshow novelties. The grounds will be illuminated with floodlights, and thousands of coloured lights. An excellent programme of attractions has been arranged, and the main feature of the programme will be changed nightly. The carnival is a community effort to augment the funds for the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial which is to be erected on the Petone Beach, on the spot where the first settlers landed 100 years ago.