AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 23 October 1930, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. FINAL SCREENING OF “THE 13TH CHAIR.” Indian summer night?—a. circle of thirteen people amazed—eerie moonlight—tables moving by “spirit media”—a young Englishman stabbed, but the knife nowhere to be seen!—These arc some of the thrills awaiting you in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s latest alltalking mystery production to bo finally presented this evening. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY DOUBLE STAR FEATURES. Two star features will be presented nt the Opera House on Friday and Saturday night. Mary Nolan in “Shanghai Lady,” and Baclanova and Clive Brook in “A Dangerous Woman.” “Shanghai Lady” is an intriguing drama of a madcap beauty who plumbed the depths and reached the heights of human experience in one of the wickedest ports in the world. See i the romance of the honky-tonk hostess

and the renegade white man. See types, unusual settings unusual colour, unusual drama in the picture that brings you a new star! Olga Budanova’s quaint Russian accent will be heard for the first time (n the audible screen in “A Dangerous Woman,” the other star attraction. She plays the title role, as the Russian wife of a colonial resident agent in the jungles of Central Africa. Clive Brook and Neil Hamilton play the leading male roles. “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.”

TREMENDOUS WAR DRAMA. SEASON COMMENCES TUESDAY. 1 At last the motion picture of the great, book *‘AII Quiet on the Western Front” has been completed. Tiic critics say it is the greatest motion I picture ever made. This wonderful . Universal production of Remarque’s famous novel has required a year’s painstaking labour and expenditure of | more than £200,000. For example, , miles of actual trenches had to be dug j and fortified for the sweeping bat th* •scenes. You will all enjoy “All Quiet on the Western Front.’ It is not only the story of every army. It is the story of youth—in love with life—in I love with love—laughing, sinning, rel pouting. You will love its daring drama, its faithfulness its utter truth. You, as soldiers, will see yourselves once again marching over the shdl- , torn roads of France, mud-covered, weary with the din of battle ringing in your ears. TROTTING CLUB’S BALL. One of the largest assemblages of dancing votaries is expected to grace the floor to-morrow (Friday) evening at the Pavilion of the Greymouth i Trotting Club, V ictoria Park, for the Club’s Race Ball. ’l’he spacious dancing hall will be transformed with dec-

orations into a ,\cene of beauty, and with the ideal floors modem music and other appointments for which the Club is noted, the Ball is sure to prove the premier social function of the seai son. The Club has made arrangements ■ to accommodate a record attendance, | with every precaution against any i crowding, so that every patron may 1 rely on comfortable dancing. ' MAWHERA BENEFIT CARNIVAL DANCE. i * Saturday night’s monsteri carnival dance, held under the auspices of the I Mawhera Ladies’ Hockey Club, has a double attraction. Th first is because 1 the Mawhera Club are out to make it j their premier dance, for which pur pose special decorations in the form 1 of the latest streamers, balloons and lantern decorations are being obtained | to give proceedings a gay carnival ef 1 feet. The second leasou why a record I gathering is expected is because the proceeds will be handed over to Miss ■ M- Mathieson, and this itself should J draw the record crowd, who will* be • assured of a splendid night’s enter I tainment.