ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1934, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OP-BRA HOUSE TO-NIGHT Janet Gaynor and Henry Garat are featured in “Adorable,” a wonderful picture, to be finally screened to-night. Others in the cast are C. Aubrey Smith, Herbert Mundin, Blanche Friderici, Stuart Holmes, Albert Conti, Ferdinand Sehumann-Heink, Esther Muir, Peter Duray, Barbara Leonard and Hans von Twardowski. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Joan Blondell and Ricardo Cortez are starred in “Broadway Bad,” to be screened on Friday and Saturday. Eye, ear and emotional appeal are effectively combined in “Broadway Bad.” More than 100 of Hollywood’s prettiest girls provide the eye appeal. There are also colourful Striking settings. Ear appeal is provided by two original musical numbers, composed specially for the picture, “Forget the Past,” and “Little Man.” BLACKBALL TO-NIGHT “Sweepings” will be screened tonight. HOKITIKA TO-NIGHT “Broadway Bad” will be screened to-night. RUNANGA TO-NIGHT “Ves, Mr. Brown” will be screened to-night.

DERRY’S MILITARY BAND Arrangements have been completed, in connection with the coming „of Derry’s Military Band and party on Saturday. In addition to the members of Derry’s Band, numbering fifty players the Christchurch Harmonica will be bringing twenty-five members. There will also be the assisting artists and friends and relatives of those already mentioned. The whole party will number just on one hundred persons. Oh arrival at the station the party will be met by the Greymouth Civic Band which wlil play and parade the visitors through the streets to the Town Hall. In the evening a most comprehensive programme has been provided for the Town Hall concertgoer. The items selected by the band are acceptable from a popular point of view as well as from the stand-point of

the musician. The overture “Poet and Peasant” is one which finds favour because of its melodious composition. “Chu Chin Chow” is a musical tale of the East and contains lovely melodies, gorgeous settings of Eastern flavour, and effects seldom heard unless by a big orchestra or military band. On the lighter side there are marches written specially for military bands, played with a snapppiness which has caused Derry’s to be designated the “Sousas

of the South.” Assisting artists will be the Christchurch Harmonica Band, whose work on the concert platform in Christchurch, and over 3YA. ( has evoked unstinted praise. The followingwill contribute to the programme, details of which may be secured at Kilgour’s; Mrs. Leslie Scrimshaw (soprano vocalist), Mr. Leslie Scrimshaw (tenor soloist), duet by Mr. and Mrs. Scrimshaw. Mr. A. E. Hutton piccolo soloist; his son Trevor the eleven- 1 vear-old flautist, Mr. Frank Geoghegan xylophonist; Mr. R. C. Muschamp saxophonist, and Mr. James Laurenson whose funny stories and humorous recitations are always keenly looked forward to. Master Warwick Humphreys, nine-year-old boy soprano

whose singing has electrified those who have heard him, Mr. Norman A. Carson is the accompanist and conducts the Harmonica Band. Lieutenant. H. Gladstone, is the musical director of the band and is also in charge of the party.