AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1930, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. “The Last Warning,” starring Laura La Plante, a picture that will chill one with its spooky thrills as it warms one with its daring drama, will be presented at the matinee this afternoon and at the evening performance. A piercing scream of baffling shadows. Who? . . What? . . How? . . Why the strange, eerie happenings? All these mysterious things tako place in “The Last Warning,” a startling story of what happened to a beautiful stage star when she and her company dared the Unknown and' came back to a, long-empty theatre to revive a. performance that previously had proved fatal. Buster Keaton appears in “Spite Marriage,” at Sunday’s picture benefit. It is a hilarious story of back-stage theatre life, with Buster as a tailor whom the leading woman marries for spite, launching him into comical troubles.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY. “Dark Streets,” a 100 per cent talkie, will be the fare for Monday and Tuesday next. The first dual role in the history of talking pictures is played by Jack Mulhall. Dual roles have had an interesting place in the world’s literature and drama. Many artists have played double parts, either as two separate people with different personalities under a duplicate appearance, or as the Same person with two vastly divergent natures. Jack Mulhall plays the part of two brothers, enough alike to be mistaken for each other, but different mentally and morally. Out of this resemblance and this difference comes the story, which is highly thrilling.

IKAMATUA CONCERT A concert in aid of the Totara Flat Presbyterian Church Parish Car Fund will be held in the Ikamatua Hall on Thursday evening. A -well arranged programme will be given by talent from Greymouth and the District and a bumper house should result. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The first rehearsal of the newlyformed Greymouth Philharmonic Society takes place at the Trinity Hall on Monday at 7.30 p.m. sharp. The work to be presented is the Opera “Bohemian Girl,” wdiich requires a good representation of voices. As it is the intention of the Society to produce this beautiful Opera at an early date it is imperative that intending members, both ladies and gentlemen, should be present on Monday night. MAWHERA DWANCE. The third series of the Wish Bone Competitions will be held at the Mawhera dance in the Oddfellows’ Hall to-night. Valuable silver cups are to be awarded the winners. Steel’s full orchestra will supply the music.