ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 March 1935, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “Soldiers of the ’King,” featuring Cecily Courtneidge, will be screened to-night. to be shown are Paraniount Sound News, Cinesound Review and ' Eugene Pallet Comedy ' "Hip, Zip, Hoorah!” “The Crosby Case,” with Wynne Gibson and Onslow Stevens, will be shown Sunday night- Proceeds are in aid of Mayor s Unemployment Fund. MONDAY AND TUESDAY. i Two excellent pictures, "Ace of j Aces” and “Topaze” will be shown Monday and Tuesday. BLACKBALL—TO-NIGHT. “The Crosby Case” will be shown at Blackball to-night, and "It Hap*, pened One Night” Sunday night. | WALLSEND—SUNDAY. | “Operator 13” will be shown at! Wallsend Sunday night. WAIUT A—TO-NIGHT. "Death Takes a Holiday” will be screened at Waiuta to-night, and “Hollywood Party” Sunday night. RUNANGA—TO-NIGHT. “Operator 13” will be screened at ■ Rv.nanga to-night, and “Our Betters” Sunday night. REGENT THEATRE. J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation, Ltd., have thQ pleasure of presenting to patrons another high-class double feature programme for the week-end. also Monday and Tuesday nights. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey’appear in another frenzy of fun, “Kentucky Kernels.” Their' crazy capers take them below the Mason and Dixon line into Banesville, Kentucky, where they undertake to mediate a family feud. They achieve tlieir peace-making with fun, frolic, song and dance, and the feud turfis into a fiesta to the tune of 1 “One Little Kiss.” The other star feature is a story of a female Don Juan, Ruth Chatterton, and Georg? Brent, in “Female.” There have been motion pictures before that presented women as big ! business executives, but “Female,” in j which Ruth Chaterton stars, gives her a background entirely different , from anything ever shown on the screen. She tried to beat men at* ] their own game when it came to love , affairs. A strong supporting cast in-

eludes George Brent, Huth Donnelly, Lois Wilson, Ferdinand Gotschalk, and Johnny Mack Brown. SCHAEF’S HALL. : Schaef’s dance to-night needs no I boosting. Their orchestra has bean ■ | augmented by the inclusion of a saxaphonist, and the floor is easily the best on the Coast. Two M’s.C. are in charge, and an invitation is extended to everyone to join in to-night. GRAND MANNEQUIN PARADE. I A grand mannequin parade will be [held at Schaef’s Hall on Wednesday ■ afternoon, commencing at 2.30. The I Whole presentation of the new season’s fashions, consisting of matron’s gowns, evening gowns, afternoon and evening frocks, coats, children’s wear, millinery and footwear, will be under I the direction of Mrs Arnold Perry, of Hokitika. Afternoon tea will be provided free. I ' DANCING FOR HEALTH. I Miss Dorothy Thwaites announces that the newly-formed Ballet Club which has proved so successful in the centres, will open in Greymouth on Wednesday next, April 3, at 7.30 p.m. > Young ladies are requested to take this opportunity of joining these healthful body culture classes. ANNUAL RUGBY UNION BALL. The West Coast Rugby Union’s an- ' nual ball, the proceeds of which will be equally divided amongst the candidates in the Queen Carnival contest, wilt held at Schaef’s Hall on Tuesday, April Q, and arrangements for what protnises to be the most outstanding' function in social activities on the West Coast, are well In train. A willing and energetic ladies’ edm-

mittee has been set up to govern the siipper arrangements. The Kit Kqt Orchestra will be heard to greater advantage on this occasion with their latest and snappiest music. The Commitee is making every effort to satisfy patrons and thus ensure a renewal of their patronage, in the future. Advice has been received from various parts of the West Coast that many visitors will be present. KARORO SPORTS CLUB. An outing of which hundreds will doubtless avail themselves on Easter Sunday is that rendered possible by the enterprise of the Karoro Sports< Club in arranging an excursion on that day to Christchurch for the people of Greymouth, Hokitika. Brunner and Stillwater. Particulars are advertised in another column.