AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1927, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL, TO-NIGHT.

Hoot Gibson plays the unusual, roje of a cowboy cartoonist in ‘ ‘Chip of the Flying U,” which comes to the Town Hall to-night.' Gibson lays no claims, he says, to actual artistic distinction. He is a champion rider, an accomplished actor, and an enthusiastic guitar-player, but the other Muses, he admits, passed him by. OPERA HOUSE. Given a lavish setting in the whirl of modern social life, “Cheaper to Marry,’’ which will be seen at the Sunday night picture benefit in the Opera House. It shows brilliant social events in the luxurious surroundings of New York hotels and clubs, intimate glimpses of life behind the doors of an exclusive women’s athletic club, and thrilling scenes, in the stock exchange. Jim Knight, played by Lewis S. Stone, one of the finest actors of America,.wages a bitter* fight in conventions and loses. Matrimony, the film discloses, is the best and cheapest policy. MONDAY. At the Town Hall on Monday night an all new. programme will be presented. The star attraction to be shown will be the “Sting or the Lash,” starring Pauline Frederick. It is a thrilling adaption of the great Western story by Harvey -W. Gates.

“THE UNFAIR SEX.” Considerable interest is felt among Greymouth theatre-goers of both sexes, concerning the presentation of Eric Hudson’s three-act farce comedy, “The Unfair Sex,” with which the Joseph Cunningham English Comedy Company will inaugurate its season at the Opera House this evening. One of London’s star actresses, Miss Zillah Bateman, in a favourite part, will be supported by a distinguished company. “The Unfair Sex” was one of the few big London successes of 1924 and 1925. It put up a record by being produced twice daily at "the Savoy Theatre, London, with two separate companies, for just on two years, and in Australia it was immediately proclaimed as the best farce comedy of recent years, and that is why it was selected as the premiere for New ZeaZaland. “The Unfair Sex” is claimed to be an assured success, and a splendid vehicle to show off the supreme art of Miss Zillah Bateman and her brilliant supporting company, -while the production also gives scope for a fine display of frocks from London and Paris. The season will be continued on Monday and Tuesday, with “Eliza Comes to Stay” and “The Sport of Kings.” The box plan is at Webley’s. GREAT BARROW FAIR.

The harvest thanksgiving services of St. Paul’s Methodist Church this year are of a. very sperfhl nature. To-mor-row special services will be conducted, the church being suitably decorated with the glories of the harvest. The Rev. J. F. Martin will preach and special harvest music will be rendered. On Monday in Wesley Hall the celebrations will be continued with a oarrow fair. At 2.30 p.m. the Jumble Stall will be opened with a splendid array of useful articles. At 7.30 p.m. there will be a harvest grand march, the participants being decorated as representing the flowers, fruit and vegetables of the season. Barrows Filled with fancywork, cakes, swee.ts, and produce will be paraded. Ice cream will be on'sale in abundance. Everybody is welcome to the function, no admission being charged.