AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 16 August 1934, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT In * 4 Heads We Go” to be finally screened to-night, the starring vehicle was chosen for Constance Cummings’ British screen debut. Filmgoers see romance and revels on the deck of a millionaire’s yacht, drama in its cabins, and frolics in the sea at its sid?. On a lantern-lit deck a dinner party scene wa.s filmed, during which a lilting song hit, “ Whistling Under th? Moon’’ was introduced by the populir cabaret star, Irish Ashley. Overboard the swimming scenes were the essence of gaiety. Constance Cummings de-, dared that these scenes gave her tvni opportunity of displaying that she is a first-class swimmer. A wireless cabin provide* a dramatic moment and the thrilling escape ashore of Constance and Binnie Barnes, with piles of luggage, in the incompetent hands of Claude Hulbert and Gus McNaughton, brings the remarkable yacht scenes to a close At Blackball to-night ‘‘The Worst Woman in Pari*” will be screened, and at Runanga “Cohens and Kellys in Trouble” will be shown to-night.

COMPETITIONS FESTIVAL. The annual Festival of the West I Coast Competitions Society will be opened this evening in the Town Hall at 7.30 o’clock, when the Mayor, Mr J. W. Greenslade, will preside. The programme for the opening session will include the adult choir contest, the first section of the Impromptu Debate, the Verse Speaking Choirs, and the first section of the instrumental quartettes. At the conclusion of the Choir contest the judge, Mr W. H. Dixon, will conduct the massed choir. This departure will be new to Greymouth, as it is several years since there was competition in the Choral section. A new class is the Verse Speaking Choir, in which the choirs recite in unison. This will provide added interest. The debate between the Club pairs will bring the Club contest before the pub lie, whilst the instrumental quartettes will be a new feature affording scope for concerted music by band quartette parties as well as other instrumentalists. The programme for the whole week has been drawn to provide good entertainment, particularly at evening sessions, and has been set so tha' the session will conclude by 10.30 each evening.