AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1934, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. S. HOWARD IN “IT’S A KING.” Sydney Howard lias been provided with a great opportunity lor displaying that guileless innocence and bland drollery which together combine to make, him such a distinctive and popular comedian, in his new him, “it’s a King.” The picture has an ideal setting, full of colour and spectacle. T.-e story gives abundant scope for the comedian’s talent, and right royally dees he rise to the occasion. It is a splendid comedy. A goi.d supporting programme will also be screened. CARTER, THE GREAT “From time immemorial,” says Carter the Great, who will appear' at the Princess Theatre on Monday for one night only, “conjuring has had her favourite conjurers—conjurers, each his favourite trick. A favourite trick should be the one which has embraced the widest scope conjoined to the greatest effort toward success in its presentation and exploitation. Perseverance is usually crowned with success, but, herculean endeavours with respect to achievement in the realms of magic oftentimes met with stolid unappreciation and many disquieting rebuffs. “Once Charlie Schilling nearly wrecked my puerile ambition by telling me that my favourite trick of the ‘Tapping Hand’ was unworthy of my repertoire and icily hade me eliminate .it from my programme. I thought then that the ‘Tapping Hand’ was a good trick, and I have since made ia, goodly part of the world coincide with my poor opinion. Then, again, in the movements of the rapping hand we have the symbol of life and action; it exemplifies the hand of good fellowship and by its clarity and absence of cumbersome apparatus, typifies the highest in legerdemain—simplicity. “But the ‘Tapping Hand’ is not now my favourite trick; my favourite trick to-day is still the hardest trick to do; one which most magicians essay but few accomplish. That is: the changing of an empty theatre into a crowded house of pleasing spectators and a depleted box office treasury into overflowing coffers of glitter} ig, glinting, glistering gold coin— the kind that magicians do not usually catch in the air!”