AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 January 1926, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

HANNA’S DIGGERS TO-NIGHT. At 8 o’colck tb-night- the will rise at the Opera House on Pat Hanna’s Vice-Regal Diggers,' who 'return for- one night only. This ‘com have the remarkable record ' of 488 consecutive nights at Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane,. and of being the only company from Australia to play a month’s season at the Dunedin Exhibition. The fact- that- they -return here again in Match is significant. They-present the best in artistic song, sketch, comedy, burlesque, male quartettes, dance spectacles and Hovel and sparkling originalities. Box plhtts dte at Webley’S, so ;be Sute and book yoUr Beats. No extra 1 for booking, SPECIAL ON MONDAY, The Opera House provides the best possible bills, and Monday’s production is no exception. ' The Selznick special, “Woman to Woman,” to be shown, starring Betty Compson, will be the main feature. It is an unusually appealing photodrama. Betty Compson is delightful as Louise Boucher, the little. French' dancer, who

whirls amid the tables of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and when Louise becomes the great Delroyse, the darling of London stage, Miss Compson’s delineation is remarkable for its vivacity and restraint. She reaches the pinnacle, as an unselfish woman whom Fate has'robbed of her bridegroom and later of the father of her son. TOWN HALL. When Buck Jones first read the script of “Winner Take All,” he,could hardly wait to get started on this i newest starring vehicle with which William Dox had provided him. Buck thought; and now thatfit’s finished still thinks this one of the most thrilling pictures he ever worked in. In hi? newest impersonation of a man who J wills to win and take all, or none. Buck runs the gamut of emotions from happy-go-lucky cowboy to frantic lover ‘ driven to desperation by losing the ‘ girl, who prefers the percentage split \ with a millionaire. To lose is some- ' thing brand new for Buck. But watch * how he “bucks up” and “winner take I all” in the mad fighting finish at the ! Town Hall.

TO-MORROW’S PICTURE BENEFIT Playing in support of Richard Dix in his first Paramount starring picture, “Manhattan,” coming to the Sunday night picture benefit in the Opera House are Jacqueline Logan, leading woman, Gregory Kelly, as a member of a notorious gang of. thugs of New York’s Hell Kitchen, where the scenes of the production are laid; George Sellgnmann, in a heavy role, and Gunboat Smith. “Manhattan” was adopted from Jeffry Farnol’s novel “The Definite Object.” The story of New York gang life, by- one who knew

what he was talking about, Farnol ate and slept right in the surroudings of which he writes. Everything about the picture is authentic. ST. PATRICK’S DAY. ■ A meeting bf the Hibernian Society was held on Thursday* the president, Mr Thos. Garth, presiding. It was decided to celebrate St; Patrick s Day, March 17, by having a procession of parishioners and -school children from the JVlarist Brothers’ School to Victoria Park, where a children’s sports meeting will be held. As the programme will be large, and open to all schools on the- Coast, a good day’s enjoyment may be expected by those who attend .The usual ball w’ll be held in the evening. The ball in the past hits proved a huge success and the committee are confident of similar results this year. The St. Patrick’s concert will be held on Thursday, March 18, when a good programme will ,be offered. DUNEDIN EXHIBITION DUNEDIN, January 30. One million three hundred and thirty thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three is the splendid record of the attendance at the Exhibition to date, and a big crowd is expected tonight after the trotting at Forbury Park. An earnest plea for all possible assistance in helping New Zealand children to widen their education at the great Exhibition, was made by Capt. Graham, the British Government Commissioner in the course of a radio talk. He said: “One aspect of the ultimate results of the Exhibition in which I am particularly interested, is that of education. Wembley was-, thronged with parties of school children absorbing in the easiest and happiest form the atmosphere and economies of the Empire. The New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition is equally Imperial in atmosphere, if not in scope, and all overseas Commissionersare unanimous in hopln'g that the exceptional opportunity ;gpven to the children of New Zealand by the promoters of the Exhibition, shall not go begging. I am happy to say that recent indications point to organised visits of school children in the near future, and in no place will they be more welcome than’ in the British Government Court.”