ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 January 1935, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. “A Ticket in Tatts,” starring George Wallace, to be screened to-night and Thursday, has a cabaret scene. For this 100 dancers were specially selected from among the dancers at the Wattle Path Palais at St. Kilda (since transformed- into Efftee’s up-to-date new sutdio) during a series of special nights, at which a committee of Efftee executives atended, with George Wallace, to pick the dancers. Melbourne’s leading dance orchestra is featured. The scene is easily the most elaborate of its kind yet filmed in the Commonwealth. Wallace is seen first as a waiter, but later becomes a cabaret artist, and some of his best comedy is introduced. The popular vaudeville comedian, Nick Morton, appears with the ballet, in his famous sergeant-major tu,rn. The scene will prove one of the best comedy sequences yet featured an Australian film. • ' /

FAMOUS BAKU. THE GRENADIER GUARDS. The advent of the Grenadier Guards Band, under the direction of Messrs J. and N. Tait, to Greymouth, on Wednesday next, the concert beginning at noon at the Trotting Park, is being awaited with great interest. By special permission of His Majesty the King, the most famous regimental band of the United Kingdom is touring New Zealand under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government and the New Zealand Government, the musical director being Majoi* G. Miller, M.8.E., whose name is a distinguished one in the musical world of Great Britain. When the Grenadier Guards Band arrived in Melbourne, it was met by the largest crowd ever known to assemble at the railway station. It is estimated that over 150,000 persons backed the roadway so completely, as the Bandsmen marched from the station to the Town Hall, that on occasions, the mounted troopers had great difficulty in clearing a path for them. Resplendent in scarlef and gold and huge bear-skin caps, their appearance in Australia was, it is said, an inspiring spectacle. The brilliant uniform of the Guards, their perfect alignment, swinging, long striding style of marching and the heady intoxication of their playing, . whipped the Australian people into a foam of enthusiasm. At every performance in Sydney and Melbourne, the Grenadier Guards Band played to record audiences. Every man, in the Band is a master of his instrument, and the glowing ensemble is directed by Major G. Miller, whose high position has been won after long and arduous service. The Guards Band is a fully organised body designed to inspire the British world with the courage, loyalty and devotion to ideal causes for which the nation is famed. The programme to be presented here by the Grenadier Guards will ho popular, stimulating, and good.