AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

TAKE IT EROaTmE ’’ —TO-NIGHT

H you would laugh until you rjuivor and palpitate, see Reginald Denny’s latest farce. It is entitled " Take It From Me," and it is playing at the Princess Theatre to-night. Denny, star ol many excellent farces, is at his very hast in this lathi lau’i frothy comedy, and dashes through it with an air of serious abandon that would ci 11” laughs from the most solemn of men. Hen Hendricks. ,lr.. and Lee Moran as the blundering floor-walkers o. Denny’s department store, give tin comedian capable support in provoking the risiliilit ies ol‘ the audiences. Blaiuhc .Meliafley graces the picture as the fern ininc lead with a large stock of personality and an Irish smile that ihypnotic when it is not actually dazzling. iuicicn Littlefield its a dyspeptic business man and Ethel Wales as a chronically unpleasant business .Spinster. add much solemn merriment ti the production, as do Tom O'Uricii .Jean Tolley. liertram •Johns, \ era Lewis and the other members ol the east. Circat credit for the picture must go to William Seiter. who directed it was the unswerving knowledge ol tlie true humourist and the technical ability ol the expert. The picture is based on the musical comedy ol tin same title by Will 11. .Johnstone and Will 11. Anderson, and was ably adapted to the screen by Harvey Thoiv.

The usual supports including " 'I 1m Winking Idol ’’ -..serial) will also Ik shown to-night. The prices to-night are: Circle its. stalls Is (Id, children under ll’ downstairs as usual.

( ARTER THJC GREAT. In China there are many Citing Ling Loos. They, like the Last Indian, have nothing new to offer. In truth, in the realm of magic—here or abroad - there is little new or startling. The science, like music, has seven notes, hut unlike music, its harmonies have been exhausted. I here are no nett principles, inexplicable or awesome. As with necromancy so with necromancers. So says Carter the Great, who. with his box of tricks, assistants and live ponderous elephant will appear fo. one night only, on Tuesday next. Nov. Ist. at the Princess Theatre. Sour, eld trick is olttimes dressed up freshly and passed for something new or : small trick is converted into an illu sion, the principle whereof is as old as an Egyptian mummy. lint about magic there is always a new factor. this is. the growing and the new generation. They are more dillieiilt to fool than their progenitors and more imposing apparatus is re(piired than in the clays of Anderson the Wizard of the North. Alaskelyn ol Carl Hertz, hut they are equally credulous, for the trend of the times makes for credulity and the modernity of thought and innovations of science bring along in their wake the light of heart, the investigator, the thoughtful arid erudite hand in hand with innocent and childish wonderment, as personilied in this and ever recurrent and successive ages. Chinn, the sleeping giant is awakening. Her present men are hoys out of the new age. Her thought is occidental.

twisting and turning in environs oriental. She labours up hill. Her magic is potent only in her traditions; there are extant no great exponents of the craft; her face is towards the West; she welcomes the tricks of the whit man. hut is slow to absorb them whether her preceptors arc magicians or merchants. Box plan is open at Miss Mclntosh’s.