AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1932, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. “THE LION AND THE LAMB.” “The Lion and the Lamb,” featuring Walter Byron and Carmel Myers, will be screened to-night. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. “THE SKIN GAME.” The British International Picture, “The Skin Game,” which will be presented Friday, Saturday matinee and evening, is the cinematic interpretation of the play of the same name by one of England’s most distinguished dramatists. John Galsworthy. The author himself was so greatly interested in the screen version of his presentatioti of the ever present conflict between modern progress and the preservation of aristocratic sentiment, that he personally supervised the script prepared by the director, Alfred Hitchcock. The powerful story of the bitter feud between a country squire and a prosperous manufacturer offers an entertainment which all picture-goers will appreciate. OLD TIME DANCE. Pirate Football Club’s old time dance, Schaef’s Hall, Saturday night next. Gaiety Orchestra of five instruments. Efficient M’s.C. Novelty dances. Usual prices and bus services after ’dance. COMBINED SCHOOLS’ CONCERT. A grand combined schools’ concert, the proceeds of which arc to be donated to ass’sting the funds of the extended schools’ dental clinic service, will bo held in the Greymouth Town Hall on Thursday, May 5. Over two hundred children will take part in th e programme, the largest congregation of juvenile talent yet assembled on a Greymouth stage, and th e items that they will render will include monologues 7 vocal and instrumental items, choir numbers, comedy character sketches, drill. Convent Girls’ Orchestra, etc. The programme promises Io b/j in every way enjoyable, and the dental clinic should reap' a generous sum as a result. Those to whom the performances of. children appeal can do no better than attend. GREYMOUTH PLAYLOVERS. The success that greeted the Greymouth Playlovers, in, their production, last year, of three one-act plays, should be more than repeated with their pro-, duction of Somerset Maugham’s worldfamous play, “Jack Straw,” which tho Playlovers will present to Greymouth

audiences at the Town Hall, on May 2 and May 3. The play is one" that admirably lends itself to the talents ofsuch an enthusiastic society as tho Greymouth Playlovers, and the production should be. in every way, an outstanding success. Much time and hard work is being put into the rehearsal of the production, and a strong cast of artists whose histrionic ability is al ready favourably known to Greymouth audiences, has been enrolled. The play is ont» that cannot fail to appeal to all sections of the audience, and the Playlovers are to be congratulated on their enterprise in arranging for its production. The piny is being produced by Mrs J. W. Dickson, the foundress of the Society. The box plan is now open at The Bristol, where reservations can be made free of charge.