AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1935, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House VAUDEVILLE TO-NIGHT. Patrons of the Opera House to-night and Tuesday are in for a treat when Scott and Field present their Vaudeville Comjiany in 39 minuter of first-class entertainment. The show is headed by Mr Scott, well-known in New Zealand and Australia, under the Fu'ler banner. Mr Scott is uncle t<» Australia’s greatest comedian ami film star, George and one of the most veisatile performers. The actJ include tap dancing, bell ringing, and vocal numbers. The show has completed a tour of the South Island, being well received by large audiences everywhere. ‘ ’ WILD CARGO ’ ’—TO-NIGHT. For novelty, humour and excitement, Frank Buck's ‘‘Wild Cargo,” to be screened in conjunction with the vaudeville show, surpasses anything seen since “Bring ’Em Eack Alive!” Buck and an interpid party go into jungle? if Sumatra, India and Malay on perilous adventures as the animal collector carries out an order from an American zoo to deliver alive, a num her of rare sj.ecimens. The experiences provide an absorbing picture, such as Buck liberating himself from a. python’s crushing coils, capturing a clouded leopard by severing a limb from a tree where it had taken refuge; handling a man-eating tiger in an eightfoot pit, and cornered by an escaped king cobra and recapturing the deathdealing snake. Incidents like these, give the onlooker a fast-beating pulse as Frank Buck gathers his “Wild Cargo.”

Regent Theatre

DOUBLE FEATURE TO-NIGHT. To-night and to-morrow night the final screenings of the special week-end double feature programme will be given. Love and laughter are well balanced with action and thrills in “I’ve Got Your Number,” the new Warner Bros, picture, with Joan B’ondell in the stellar role. “I’ve Got Your Number” reveals the romance and thrills that underline the telephone swstem that honeycombes America and the world. And if anyone suspects this industry is just a few million miles of cold wires, he is due to '-have h:s eyes opened with a startling jolt to the vivid coloring of it? throbbing life as unfolded on the screen by this picture. Tense drama enacted amid settings of vivid beauty describes “Grand Canary,” Jesse L. Lasky’s latest production for Fox Film, which is the other feature. .Tn the stel’ar role appear? the popular Warner Baxter, while opposite him is Madge Evans. The picture takes its title from the setting on one of the Canary Islands, the action of the story bringing ether the characters on the Spanish isle during the yellow fever epidemic. Baxter’s role is that of a doctor who i? cast bv coincidence in the midst of two eqidemies, one love, and the other yellow fever.

GOLD DIGGERS BALL AT KUMARA. The annual Gold Diggers Ball will be held at the Kumara Memorial Hall

on Friday, May 24th, and gold diggers i are invited from all parts of the West 1 Coast. Cee. Williams’ Kit Kat Dance i i Band will supply it? usual delightful 'i

music and all other arrangements will be all that that can be desired. There will be a host of novelties. The price for admission is very reasonable.