AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES, “RED LIPS ” TO-NIGHT. Charles Rogers and Marian Nixon make a youthful and refreshing costarring pair in “ Red Lips ” the ultramodern Universal picture of young people and college lile which opens at die Princess Theatre to-night. Director .Melville Brown is frank with many of the scenes, hut lie is also honest in telling . them. So the Universal picture proves both very entertaining a lid very real. The-exploits of young people may sometimes seem a hit too extreme to their elders. These same exploits are translated to the screen, hut Brown has told them with real understanding. “ Red Lips ”is the story of; a.-cwl-l.ege widow, the last word in modern youth who happens to fascinate an inexperienced if rush man. She “ runs him ragged,” as the saying goes, and before long he is thrown off the track team because be does not maintain the training rules. When it is too late she realises her mistake, and as she loves him, she goes away leaving a note saying that he is too inexperienced Tor her. Angry and stung by her note he tries to match his pace to hers. He sinks' ihdre-and more in the depths, hut her surprise appearance, when, he fs in thei&idst of a cafe party changes him and he makes up his iniiul; tn ■return.' to saner living."' -."..M0. wins hack his place in the track team. Wh.eii) the? giridis -insulted by -another; hoy at a dance he takes her side and they ;l>eeome} sweethearts agjiin: H';“Red hips ” is well told. An excellent youthful ejust,,of players, prn-tra'y tlieii: roles with cleverness. In the company are Stanley Taylor,, den Stevenson, Andy Devine, Robert Seiler, and Earl McCarthy, and a bevy of ffollywopd.beauties, . , ■ A topical and comedy will ' also he shown to-night.

WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.

UNIQUE MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT. Edward Branscombe’s famous Engisli Company, the Westminster Glee Singers-, will appear, under the direction of Henry Hayward in Hokitika at rhe IRrincie£iJ .Tiheatre on Monday even'-; ing. The company is made up of seven of rEiipihiiidbr jhest soM!) singer's 1 from. such historic choirs as those o'l Westmijhsterv.|l)l)(jy3 st.; iPauPsj Ipt. Windsor, Worcester Cathedral, etc. with six remarkable-splo--sppriuKot, who have all held important positions in London celebrated choirs. They specialise; in upaccompijiuetly part-sing--ing, embracing a wonderful series ol natipnal-jSjir.s,-. -?=cnrol.Sj Irish folk-songs, Scottish melodies and Welsh airs, additional; |ty;.-a. great- variety of lighter music such as vocal dances, sailors ~ shanties^*, quartets, plantation songs, and song seenas. One of the feature of, most popular interest is the singing of the hoys, a type of work which is found to perfection in Great Britain, and which has aroused: the greatest enthusiasm in all the many parts of tlm wolfldfwhjßtf.'tlie Glee; Singers have appeared.lt should he emphasised that Allis'unjigue.bod y .of singers has been to revive interest in the Motherland, tfiq hearing the title “ Songs of our Forefathers ” which, with both sacred and has been specifically designed to filing into prominence all that is bom in British minstrcls|:f presented in delightfully artistic stage settings which make the entertainment popular and far removed from the orthodox concert; the Westminster Glee Singers programmes appeal to all, they are never dull and their brightness and beauty in vocal art are their charm. The box plan is at Miss Mclntosh’s and attention is drawn to tile concessions offered to pupils from schools.