AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 8 July 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

FRIDAY NIGHT. FUTURISTS ’ FAREWELL. On Friday night, for one night only, the English Futurists will give their arewell performance in the Opera louse, when they will present all special request numbers selected from four programmes. One big night of joy by the same sixteen merry maids and men. Gorgeous gowns, superb scenic effects, and brilliant ensembles. Don’t miss he English Futurists. Prices 5/-, 4/-, /-, and 2/-. Box plan at Webley ’s. OPERA HOUSE. NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGH I'. In days gone by, the law did nob protect the poor from the ravages the rich from the crafty and unscrupulous nobleman, who used his wealth and position to gain his evil enus. But there were took upon themselves the burden of the oppressed and in unlawful ways tried to right the wrongs. These guardians of the poor were men like Robin Hood Dick Turpin, and Claude Duval, but there were others whose deeds upon the highway brought even these under tlie bad name of highwaymen. A stirring story of one of these men, of his deeds of daring and romance, is told in the British picture, “Claude Duval,” which will be screened at the Opera House to-night. MARY PICKFORD MONDAY. “Little Annie Rooney,’’ a comedy drama of tenement life in New York in which Mary Pickford stars ,and which comes to the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday next, under a United Artists Corporation release, appears to have been written to order for “The World’s Sweetheart” for it is an ideal Mary Pickford story. “Little Annie Rooney” is as Irish as the curly-haired ragamuffin who plays the title role, the young daughter of an East Side policeman, whose playmates are about thirty young boys, and who enters into the gang fights and rows of these lads with all the vigour at her command. Unexpectedly tragedy stalks into the policeman’s family, and the girl is suddenly faced with some of the grim realities of life that seldom come t o , a child of her age. Through the gang battle sequences Miss Pickford romps gloriously"!! lead er of the dirty faced boys and •the idol of her “gang.’’ She is sweet and appealing as the sweetheart of her “Joe” and through the entire picture the artistry of Mary Pickford is again revealed. While of the type of many of her best pictures, “Little Annie Rooney’’ has a new and strong plot a carefully chosen cast of supporting players and is photographically beautiful throughout. TOWN HALL TO-MORROW.

Whoever created the character of Squibs for Betty Balfour certainly did the job well. As “Squibs M.P.,” the latest Master Picture, due to-morrow night (Friday) at the Town Hall, she is both philanthropist and parliamentarian, a little flower seller who has climbed the social ladder carrying with her a magic box of amusing tricks. Betty laying the law down to father, or masquerading in officer’s uniform at a costume ball in Paris, or chopping up lumps of butter at the Squibs’ Pure Milk Dairy, or showing P.O. Lee how to make a parliamentary speech, pasting up election bills, white-washing hecklers, pleading th© cause of babie s before battleships in the House of Commons, or chasing the ghosts in a haunted castle, is just the self-same Betty, radinting happiness all the time. “GLORIOUS NEW ZEALAND.” The above great film will bo shown at Kumara to-night (Thursday) at Hokitika on Friday 7 (matine e and night) and at Blackball on Saturday.