AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14039, 23 April 1920, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWARDS-FULLERS PICTURES. The new American Pathe film drama, "Put Up Your Hands," is not, as tho ■ title would suggest, a piece of thrilling guil-play. The moral of the story real- ; ly is that weak women should learn the noble art, so that in eases of emergency they can ''put 'em up.' There are, other morals besides, as for example, how the American 'saloons can be made attractive to the public during the great drought, but in the mtuti the plav is a breezy Western mining story with "a red-blooded girl from a blue-blooded family as the centre figure of »V' nuinbor of lively unu uii- « usual incidents. Pretty Margarita, Fisher appears as an athletic girl with a. love of boxing, and during the course of s : ome lively adventures challenges all comers at ft Miners' Temperance Rest Room. A feature of the play is the excellence of the setting, the mountain,, scenery being particularly fine, while some of the scenes are highly ingSCOTTISH CONCERT. Amongst humorous recitations that 'compel laughter are "An Uunlooked- , for Responsibility" and "The Aspir- • ing Dishwasher. These will be given , at the Scotch concert on Monday night, bv the juvenile champion, Miss Juttnito ; •Manhire, of Christchurch, gold medallist elocutionist, winner of the teatpiece four years in succession, ia the Christchurch Competitions, besides.,-; manv first prizes and a. gold" 1 lftedjtK'■Mr B. A. de Latour will'"play two vio- k lin solos. "Waverley" and "II Trova- ■- tore," and both these items should prove very attractive. Mr do Ijiltour.a ability .as a violinist needs no recom-, j, mendation here. The Bristol are. reserving seats free of charge, and' pa- , , trons should secure them early. Day sales at Messrs .T. Main, Tees street,. A. A. Barsdell, W. H. Dickson, Thames street, and the Bristol. Day sales ad- - mit patrons 15 minutes before ticket . boxes open.