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Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS. BEN HUB’S’ SECOND WEEK STARTS TO-DAY. •BEN HUB’S’ SECOND WEEK STAETS TO-DAY. Never in the history of Dunedin has it been found necessary to hold and present a giant attraction for more than one week in two theatres. But that is what has happened now. So persistent is the demand for seate so dense the attendances so unabated the tush, that all precedent goes by the board, and ■BEN HUB’S’ SECOND WEEK STAETS TO-DAY. Another testimony to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer s world-conquei mg production, the immortal picture that has attracted people of every race, color, from His Majesty the King in his Palace at Windsor to the Coster of Petticoat lane. O T A G 0 N AND E 2.50. TWO THEATRES. TWICE DAILY. M P 1 7.45. R E. NEVEB BEFOBE! ‘BEN HUB.’ ‘BEN HUB.’ •BEN HUB.’ ‘BEN HUB.’ ‘BEN HUB.’ ‘BEN HUB.' NEVER AGAIN! Rev. JASPER CALDEB, Auckland's popular minister, writes:“I had an experience to-day that I shall not forget ior years. Mrs Calder and I went to see ‘Ben Hur,' and I am still a little overcome. It is the most inspiring drama I’ve ever seen. The sacred scenes are handled with becoming reverence—the chariot race cannot be described SEE it, my friends, even if you have to live on two meals a day for a week to make up for it. You’ll not regret it, believe me. —(Signed) Jasper Calder. NEARLY 18,000 HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT AT DUNEDIN! ASK ANY ONE OF THIS GREAT NUMBER WHAT THEY THINK. BOX PLANS BOX FLANS ARE NOW OPEN. PLANS—EMPIRE, at BRISTOL. OCTAGON, at BEGG’S. Theatre ’phone (after 5), 10-444. Theatre phone (after 5), 15-091. Grand Opera Scale of Presentation. INTRODUCTORY PROLOGUE, ‘THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.’ ‘THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.’ Soloists; Empire Theatre, Mr LES. DALLEY. Octagon Theatre, Mr REG. RICHARDS , And in addition, the Quartet will Render ‘Abide With Me during the Screening of ’ the Picture. BOX PLANS BOX PLANS ARE NOW OPEN. Rendered imperative by the immense cost of ‘Ben Hur prices of admission will be- EVENING STALLS, 2s and 2s 9d; STALLS RiESERVBS, 2s 9d; CIRCLE. 3s 3d (which includes booking fee). MATINEE: STALLS. Is 6d; CIRCLE, 2s (booking fee 6d extra); CHILDREN, Is TO ALL PARTS. MANAGERIAL. AS ‘BEN HUB' COMMENCES SHARP AT 7.45, THE MANAGEMENT WOULD ESTEEM IT AS A FAVOR IF PATRONS WOULD KINDLY BE SEATED BY THIS HOUR. T . „ . e , , ' Free List Entirely Suspended. DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB. AUTUMN MEETING, SATURDAY', 11th FEBRUARY, 1928. First Race 12 o'clock Noon and Last Race at 5.15 p.m. Admission Tickets: Grounds Tickets, Is 6d; Grand Stand Ticket*, 10s 6d extra; Ladies, 2s 6d. Stand Tickets are obtainable at Railway Station and Jacobs’s (tobacconist). Special Trains from Dunedin at short intervals from 10.40. - Return Fares, including admission to grounds, 4s. L. G. HILL, Secretary, UNIQUE OPEN-AIR ENTERTAINMENT, CA RISE ROOK GROUND. SATURDAY NIGHT, at 7,30. SPECTACULAR QUICKSTEP EXHIBITION By the ST KILDA, KAIROEAI, TRAMWAYS, MO SGI EL BRASS BANDS AND THE DUNEDIN PIPE BAND. Como and Hear the Test Marches to be Played at the Christchurch Contest, and see the Bands going through the Quickstep Evolutions. Also, CYCLING RAGES, 100 YARDS, 300 YARDS FLAT RACES, ONE MILE, AND MILE RELAY RACE, PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ BELAY RAGE, CRICKETERS’ RELAY RACE. BRING THE CHILDREN. THIS PROGRAMME WILL DELIGHT THEM. Secure an ART UNION TICKET, which will give you a chance in the Art Union, a;; 1 will also admit to the ground. On Sale at the Otago Sports Depot. Admission: Ground, Is; Stand, Is; Children, Half-price. Come prepared with the exact money, and thus same time at the turnstiles. PROCEEDS IN AID OP THE OTAGO CRICKET ASSOCIATION. E. S. WILSON, Secretary.

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