ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 September 1934, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “The Secret of the Blue Room” and “Private Jones” will be finally screened to-night. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. “Melody Cruise” is not a musical comedy in the accepted sense, but the first musical movie conforming to screen rather than to stage standards, it is said of this picture, to be screened on Wednesday and Thursday, with Charlie Ruggles, Phil Harris, Greta Nissen and Haelen Mack in the leading featured roles. The picture marks an innovation in motion picture musical productions. Parading chorines, wailing sopranos, and lugubrious crooners, believed the bane of the former musical films, are absent. Thirty-six glittering beauties in assembled rhythms x give incidental songs which weave easily into the continuity. The girls who provide the brilliant background have roles in the picture, and are not introduced as an interruption. The songs are part of the story; musical dialogue supplants spoken dialogue. At Runanga, to-night, “King of the Jungle” will be screened; and at Wallsend, “Bitter Sweet” will be shown. MUNICIPAL BAND DANCE.

All learners and dancers are reminded to attend the weekly learners’ Old Time dance, to be held at tho Municipal Band Room to-night. Competent teachers in attendance. J. Marley’s music and supper provided. So to-night come along and bring your friends to the most popular dance of the season and assist your band to attend the next contest. DANCE RECITAL. Miss Mavis Burgoyne and pupils will present a grand dance recital in the Town Hall next Thursday night, assisted by leading West Coast talent. All types of dancing, including six beautiful ballets, will be included on the programme, while the Happiness Boys will be heard in popular numbers. A special orchestra, under the baton of Miss Peggy Carroll, L.T.C.L., will also add to the attractiveness of the programme, presented by sixty performers.