ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1932, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT.

“Dracula” the vampire thriller will be finally screened to-night. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. The romantic team of Joan Craw 4 ford and Clark Gable in a dramatic, story of a factory girl who becomes the toast of Park Avenue makes aa engrossing talkie of “Possessed - ’; which will be screened on Friday, Saturday, matinee and evening. BLACKBALL TO-NIGHT. • ' “It’s Tough to be Famous” will be, screened at Blackball to-night. RUNANGA TO-NIGHT. “The Champ” will be screened at Runanga to-night and Wallsend Fiiday.

BAND CONCERT.

A final reminder is given to the Municipal Band’s patrons of the concert to be given in the Town Hall th?'s evening. The Band’s items are of th? best, and special training has been done to make this concert a greatsuccess. Assisting the Band are Airs J. Wright, vocalist; Miss Wallwork, elocutionist; Mr J. Murtagh and T. Bennett, vocalists, and L. Carruther-j, the crack trombone player. COBDEN SOCIAL. To-night at McKane’s Hall, the monthly euchre and dance will b'e held. First class music will supplied and an excellent ladies’ committee are in charge of the supper arrangements. ” ' RUNANGA DANCE, x The Croquet Club are holding a long night euchre and dance in the Miners’ Hall to-morrow evening. The Gaiety Orchestra will provide first class music for old time and modern dances. Good prizes will be given for the Monte Carlo and Cinderella dances, and a .sumptuous suppei- will be served.

MAORI MISSION PARTY. Fascinating, refreshingly novel and educational, the Anglican Maori Mission Party, comprising talented artists from Rotorua, Whakatane, Wellington and Canterbury, will make their appearance at the Trinity Hall on Moi» day next. A splendid concert programme will be rendered. Come and see the pageant of Maori life, depicting the history from the primitive era of the distant past, to the light of present day life. There will be three great scenes illustrated with old-tima invocation, chants and incantations, with the ppi dance in some of its rarest' and most fascinating forms, action songs, stirring hakas, gaipes, love ditties, instrumental items etc, and all eloquently described and explained by Mr Te Ari Pitama, the wellknown Maori orator and lecturer. Education and entertainment have never before came so- close together as they have in this wonderful programme.