ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1935, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Two notable films, “Little Miss Mai'ker,” and “The Past of Mary Holmes” are the double ‘feature programme at the Opera House to-night, and Tuesday. “Little Miss Marker” has Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, and five-year-old Shirley Temple in the principal roles. The story is a sentimental yarn of a littlo girl left as security for a racing bet. The girl’s; father never returns, and she is taken over by a shabby, mean bookmaker, who tries to get advice from his gang of broadway cronies. The girl before long is talking their language, and acting their rough ways. With a crooked racing deal and a . romance, the film reaches a heart-touching climax. “The Past of Mary Holmes” features’ Eric Linden, Helen MacKellar, Jean Arthur and Richard “Skee.ts”j Gallagher. Mary Holmes is known in the town as the “Goose Woman,” slovenly, gin-soaked, cantankerous. But once she was Maria, di Nardi,‘a great opera singer. She experiences again the thrill of being a sensation when she becomes the key witness in a murder case. She swears she can identify the murderer. Then the man suspected is brought before her —he is her son —the son she has hated since his birth. Could she despise him now? Had she ever • really despised this child of the one man she had really loved? Could any mother send her own flesh and blood to the electric chair?

REGENT THEATRE. “D’ye Ken John Peel?” which will be finally shown at the Regent Theatre to-night, is distinguished by a particularly strong all-British cast. It is a rollicking and. adventurous story of the “good old | days” of English sport and hunting. A romantic melodrama of Waterloo days, with rousing soldiers’> choruses and the traditional hunting song of the film title. The cast is headed by John Garrick, the leading man of “Lily of Killarney” and “The Broken Melody,” and Winifred Shotter, the heroine of so many Aldwych farces. John Stuart the popular British actor, plays the important role of Captain Moonlight. The remainder of the cast consists of Morris Harvey, Mary Lawson, Pat Noonai], Charles Carson, Wilfred Caithness and Stanley Holloway. Also on the programme is a special newsreel of the famous Dionne Quintuplets. See them feeding, sleeping, bathing, laughing, their home, their parents, their doctor, nurses, special hospital, and their washline!

GRAND CORONATION CEREMONY

■ The Grand Crowning Ceremony of i the Rugby Ijnion Carnival Queen. Miss 'Marie Cullen, will take place at the ; Regent Theatre, to-morrow night. A ! court scene of striking splendour and stateliness surrounds the actual crowning and the added attraction of the new Regent stage should ensure a good attendance. The frocking for the court scene has been specially designbed, and where in the past it has been typical, for this production a new note has been struck, and the scene will be of the French period, Louis XIV. A programme of bright and sparkling musical comedy numbers

[will be presented and here can be seen • and heard the cream of Greymouth’s i talent. Among the juveniles are Mae •Halliday, Joan Delaney, Maud Williams, Owen McCarthy and solos, duos, •[and ballets by the pupils of Dorothy | Thwaites. Others assisting are Mrs. i!C. Hickman, Misses Gladys Higson. ' Melva Moss. Doreen Donovan, and ■Messrs. J. Boucher. G. Brown, H. [Boote and E. McQueen while a popular dance team, Miss Mavis Burgoyne

and Mr. Jack O’Donnell, will be seen in a tap duo. As it is three years since the last crowning ceremony in Grevmouth. the people will have' forgotten what such a coronation is like. To-morrow they -will have the opportunity of witnessing a production which should be a fitting opening of a stage worthy of the talent of the town.