AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 31 December 1927, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—MATINEE AND NIGHT. BUSTER KEATON IN “GO WEST.” Buster Keaton—sereendom’s droll king of pantomime and comedy—invades the great open spaces / arid shocks the orthodtx' cowboys in “Go West,” his newest and best comedy, coming to the Opera House at the Matinee to-day and again to-night. “Go West” is typically Keatonesque in its treatment and humour, and m the development of its unusual plot a vein of drama and pathos crops out that one moment excites an audience’s pity, and the next its most hilarious mirth. It depicts the ludicrous and yet thrilling . adventures of a youth without personality, whose wandeirings lead him eventually into the “great open spaces,” where Fate catapults him into a cowboy ’s chaps and spurs. As a ranch hand he is a .scream. Thousands of cattle, scores of cowboys, special trains, a sensational hold-up by bandits in the middle of a desert, and 5000 wild ' steers careering through the main streets of a busy town —these are a few of ire highlighrs of “Go West.” Keaton portrays a role ideally suited to his inimitable type of screen clowning. It vs by far his most, elaborate and convulsing gloom chaser. Kathleen Myers is his leading lady, ' and is supported by Howard Truesdale. SUNDAY NIGHT—PICTURE BENEFIT. At the Sunday night Picture Benefit in the Opera House the main attraction to be shown will be “Fools in the Dark,” starring Matt Moore and Patsy Ruth Miller, a monster jubilee of fun and frolic, of mystery and creepy love interest and pathos all blended and merged into one of the really stupendous entertainment pictures of the year. MONDAY—MATINEE AND NIGHT. “THE ICE FLOOD.” “The Ice Flood,” a Universal-Jewel production, with Kenneth Harlan and Viola Dana in the featured leading roles, will be the main attraction at the Opera House on Monday Matinee arid night. The picture is based on a magazine story by Johnstone McCulley, “The Brute Breaker,” and its locale is in the timber regions of northern America. OPEN-AIR BAND CONCERT. The attention of visitors and residents is drawn to the very fine concert programme to be submitted by the popular Municipal Band on Sunday night at the Band Rotunda. The programme is one of the best yet presented by the bandsmen, and must be heard to be appreciated. The Band is at present in splendid form, equal to any band in New Zealand. The programme will consist of the following items:—Hymn, “Nearer, My God, To Thee” (the Band’s championship number); march, “Ravenswood”; fantasia, “Poetic Fancies”; descriptive fantasia, “A Sunday Parade”; cornet solo, “The Red Cap”; patrol, “With Kilt and Sporran”; humoresque, “Sliding Thro’ the Rye”; euphonium solo, “The Cavalier”; and the Christchurch Contest march, “Boulder City.” The programme gives the Band full scope, including, as it does, every class of music—sacred, classic, descriptive and humorous. The programme will commence at 8.30 p.m. A collection will be taken up on behalf of Band funds.