AMUSEMENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13981, 17 November 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWARD'S-FULLER'S PICTURES,

A play which has been praised by a great, picture critic as' containing enough material to enable tho tonstructiou of three modern dramas is found in The Iron Ring, the powerful World drama which will be screened at the Opera House to-day nml to-night. The story is most interesting and the setting lavish in the' extreme.' Chapter l.'l of the Iron.Claw is exciting and the Laughing-Mask is revealed to Margery who is startled when she learns '•vho has been her protector.

SELL'S CIRCUS,

Tlipvc was a'very fair audiriipo pre •put last evening, when Sell's Circus inaugurated its brief season in Oaniaru. I'carec, described as "the elastic man," was unable,to appear, liis place being ■ery ably filled by a lady contortionist. 'Terr Kcrgeup provided (or, rather, dieted) genuine entertainment with a number .of ("loverly-trained monkeys, dogs, and eats, while, in.the same line, were the dogs of Professor Cole; these 'anines doimr tricks which wero considerably above- the "ordinary. Mill and Cannot were billed as comic, hat-spin-tiers', and they' filled, tlio description in l creditablo manner.: The;dancer of the company was Jliss : Mny Nealy, and 'ho danced very prettily,. The intlia-, nensablo down was represented by a person known.as "Happy .Tackles,'-!. ind he kept the, audience amused, even, though most'of his. jokes were "chestnuts," A hand-balancer called "Charlie," Archie O'Brien, a trick rider, and 'Dotty and Arch," eccentric conjurois, all added.histre to the programme The lioiscs brought into tlio ring proved very Intelligent. 'No volunteers-were, loeurod for riding the" buckjumpcrs, 'nit it is' expected that ,at least two Vnl men 'will be trying conclusions with the notorious "Queenslander'( toA matineeXjvill bo given 'this ■'fteniooii, when special" prides will bo ' iharged for admission ' for children,, numerous'competitions being held, for' the little folk. -" ' • 7 „•/„