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AMUSEMENTS. TWO GREAT " r< RASS -" " VjRASS GRIFFITH. CRUZE. DE MILLE, have made their masteroieces BUT Under a blood-red sun that festered the earth to a fiery boil—withered the grassbaked the cactus—seared the souls of fifty thousand people and half a million beasts WE STARTED OUR DRAMA Over seared .plains, with the furnace-like breath of an Arabian sand-storm touching us. Across and under glacial rivers that petrified with their chill FOR NINE DAYS AND NIGHTS WE CROSSED THIS ICY STREAM. Then once again over scorched ground THE PATHS OF PURGATORY THAT BLISTERED THE FEET to the bottom of mountains that touched the lip 3 of the colourless clouds. THEN UP AND OVER THESE MOUNTAINS WE STARTED. 50,000 Human Beings—soo,ooo Tired Beasts. Unshod. Unfed. Nineteen days and night a slipped by as we clambered up menacing precipices, ankle deep, barefooted, in the snow. IN THE DISTANCE STOOD ZARDEHKUH, MONARCH OF PERSIA. Two miles high and covered with snow. AND ONLY THREE PAIRS OP SHOES, Among the vast shouting, screeching, singing horde. But There Wa; Grass On The Other Side Of That Giant Mountain and Grass Was Tbe End Of Tho Rainbow For Us. " n Rass." " O"RASS." Grass.". RASS." And Barefooted They Went Up. Up. Up, Up, Up. Up To The Very Fringe Of Heavens, Where Stout Timber Withered. Up, Uv, Ud, Over. Over. Then Down, Down To Grass And THAT'S our Story, NOTE: I Grass is not a picture play but ■— 1 is a camera-record of the migration of a Persiin Tribe. IT IS THE KIND OF STORY THAT MAD NATURE STAGES ONCE IN A MILLENIUM TO MOCK THE MINDS OB MEN WHO WRITE. • With tho Scenery Set by the Terrible Hand of Destiny, „„„„ PRODUCED BY NECESSITY, STAGED BY HUNGER ADAPTED BY DISASTER. and enacted by . 50,000 HUMAN BEINGS AND HALF A MILLION BEASTS 0.l THE FROZEN PATHS OF A FORGOTTEN WORLD. PRINCESS RINCESS "ORINCESS I RINCESS Direction » - SPECIAL MUSIC AT PRINCESS: For.Reserves Phone 41-580. RS a"d "Regent. 46m -TONIGHT" 20-142® Overture, 7.-15. Tho Big British Special. Nell ELL VJ WYN." " AT ELL IN ELL VXWYN." \Witli Dorothy rase. OROTHY VXISB, AND STRONG CAST, " 'NELL GWYN' is the sauciest and merriest film ever produced—the very champagne of screen entertainment. There never has been such a riot and sparkle and effervescence of femininity, nor such soundless peals of irresistible laughter. Nell Gwyn is a wonderful film." —The Daily Express. Gwyn." wyn."

-- Also GOOD SUPPORTING PROGRAMME. RIALT6 AND REGENT ORCHESTRAS. IN SPECIAL MUSIC. PUBLIC NOTICES. 0I T Y OF AUCKLAND. POINT CHEVALIER LIBRARY. The Official Opening of tlie Point Chevalier Library will take place at 8 p.m. on SATURDAY, the 20th November, 1926. His Worship the Major will preside, and Councillor Ellen Melville, Chairman of the Library Committee, will open the building. Citizens are cordially invited to be present. The new Library will open for the issue of books, etc., on Saturday Evening, November 20, 1926. at 7 p.m. ,1. MELLING, Acting Town Clerk. THE MUTUAL LIFE AND CITIZENS' ASSURANCE COMPANY. LTD. 'The Company hereby gives one month's notice of its intention to issue a Special Policy in place of Policy No. 204729, issued by Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co., Ltd., on the life of GEORGE GOLDSMITH and declared to have been lost, W. F. NICHOLLS. Secretary. "Wellington, November 16, 192 G. ALL CREDITORS OF RUSSELL AND CO. late of Little Queen St., Auckland, who have not yet sent in their Claims, are hereby notified that no Claims will be recognised unless received by WEDNESDAY. November 24. 1926. G, B. WATTS; A.P.A.N.Z.. 507, Southern Cross Buildings, Chancery Street, Auckland. November 16, 192 G. Assigned estate of samuel WOODROFFE (BUILDER). Notice is hereby given that, by Deed of Assignment, dated October 22, 1926, the above-named SAMUEL WOODROFFE has assigned his Estate to me for the benefit of las Creditors. All persons having claims against the Estate are requested to render particulars of such claims to me before November 30. 1926. A. E. IRVING. A.P.A. (N.Z.), Public Accountant, No. 1, Hellaby's Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland, Assignee. TN THE MATTER OF "THE COMi- PANIES ACT, 1908." Notice is hereby given that MAURI BROTHERS AND. THOMSON, LIMITED, a Company duly incorporated in the State of New South Wales in the. Commonwealth of Australia under .the laws, of New South Wales, intends to commence and 'carry on business in the City of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, and that the Office of the Company in Auckland where legal processes of any kind may be served on the Company, and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is 718. New Zealand Insurance Buildings. Queen Street, Auckland. Dated this loth day of November, 1926. ERNEST WILLIAM SHARP. Attorney for the Company. E Auckland Dairy Produce Committee, comprising leading merchant houses, advsies the following prices {without charges and commission! for the week commencing Thursday, the 18th and ending Wednesday, the 24th November, I.926,—Eggs: Hen. Is 5d doz.; Duck, Is 3d doz. Butter: First grade. lOd lb. TEACHERS OF ELOCUTION, TV/OSS RAIE ROBINSON (Licentiate iVJL Trinity College, London).—Children, Beginners, Advanced Students.—l, Sly's Bldgs.. Symonds St.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 24

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Page 24 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 24

Page 24 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 24

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