AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 March 1928, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. The memorable days of August and September, 1914, will live gloriously in history, but if the vivid and human side of the story of the Old Contemptibles has dimmed a little, “Mons,” which comes to the Opera House tonight, brings back as no other medium could, the memory of those fateful days. This picture should be seen by every man, woman and child in the Empire. Opening with the departure of the British Expeditionary Forces for France, it moves on to the glorious retreat. The screen reproduces Major Tom Bridge’s rally of the exhausted soldiers at St. Quentin, where men almost too tired to take another step were led forward to the rat-a-tat-tat of the little toy drum. This has been filmed simply without comment or sentimental emphasis, yet with a dramatic effect that will hold the most blase pictfire-goer in its speft. BLAKETOWN DANCE. The opening dance of the season will be held in the Blaketown Hall on Friday, March 30, when the Blaketown Ladies’ Hockey Club will hold a grand long night dance. This club has held many popular dances in the past but they are out to make this one the best of all with the latest novelty dances, consisting of confetti, streamer and balloon waltz. The music will be supplied by Steel’s orchestra, who are procuring the latest jazz music and the supper has been left in the hands of the Blaketown ladies’ committee.