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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 15

AMUSEMENTS. A CROWDED HOUSE SAT POSITIVELY SPELLBOUND LAST NIGHT!.. “ Extraordinary ” used in our adranco advertising is too mild a 'word to , - describe. SHISTL’S MARIONETTE , SHISTL’S MARIONETTE SHISTL'S MARIONETTE WONDER , SHOW. > . It is . Amazing! Stupendous! r . Phenomenal! Indescribable! It is . Without Question of Doubt THE WORLD’S CLEVEREST, MOST . ORIGINAL MECHANICAL ACT. Be Wise Book Early, — rjTHE REGENT ' New Zealand’s Most Beautiful Playhouse. Direction J. C. Williamson Films. Managing .director: Beaumont Smith. 1 BIG MATINEE TO-DAY, 2.15. (Pictures, Vaudeville, Orchestral And -■ „ , TO-NIGHT AT 7.45. . The Regents Stupendous ’Entertainment. For One Week Only, THE ACT EXTRAORDINARY! A Veritable Wonder Show'. ' Appearing. Afternoons and 'Evenings, SHISTL’S , SHISTL’S World-famous R—l—O—N—E-T-vT—E—S. M—A—R—l—0—N—E—T—T—E—S. T—T—E-S. R~l—°—N—E—T—T—E—3. M —A^R —l—o—X—E—T—T—E—S. OVER 200 LITTLE PEOPLE. As they Appeared Before H.M. King ■ George V. Amazing ; Jtxtraordinary—-Bewildering and Screamingly. Funny, • ; AN ACT FOR OLD AND YOUNG. n , IMPORTANT MANAGERIAL; To enable all School Children to see MARIONFTT&j SHISTL’S siaiuONEITES will appear each afternoon to Thursday) at '• RTOWAwa 6 the Programme. RICH ARH LIX in WARMING <a - .HP; greening at 3.25. ter 1 "After,.School” Price for .Children (Monday to Thursday), 4d. , . Also, RICHARD DIX, RICHARD DIX, RICHARD DIX RICHARD DIX RICHARD DIX, ■ ' I* * ' WARMING UP.” , v • “WARMING UP” ' , ‘WARMING UP.” A Wonderful Sporting Romance. It will Z^J° VT^ Tt Bee fchia lad from the country, who in winning a Worlds Cham- - pionship wins the'girl he loves. Thrilling with the excitement of the game, you will roar with; laughter at the delightful . ■ comedy., . ' , And, Second Big. Feature. BETTY BRONSON. BETTY BRONSON, BETTY BRONSON . BETTY BRONSON BETTY BRONSON’ ‘ < The Screen’s Sweet Peter Pan, in 1 “RITZY,” ‘ “RITZY,” “RITZY,” PT *u Ul Human Story by ELINOR H™-the story of a girl who aSfd at .I® 58 , than^.--a Duke, and found herself the laughing ; stock of the town. And ■ ■ * 19 sill Pla s s nt-Theatro (12-512 and 1 t], 3) , and 4* Tim Bristol. - e 7M° Wt > ■K A S£ c a ho^; Belectto,,B - l e aain ß talent®: CHAIN OF BEACONS. YORKSHIRE’S TRIBUTE TO , , CAPTAIN COOK. { (Fbom Oca Own- Cokukspondeot.) 5 rn.' ’ LONDON, November 2. 3 The celebrations in,. Yorkshire commemorating the bi-centenary of the birth of ■ Captain Cook terminated on Saturday •night with the'lighting of a' chain *of beacons, bn the Cleveland Hills from Great Ayton to 1 Whitby, a distance of 40 miles. Unfortunately, bad weather conditions prevailed, and at'Great Ayton,'Eaton, . and Saltburn visibility was extremely poor. Heavy rain began to fall at about 5 o’clock, and the hills were shrouded id ' a thick mist which prevented the beacons being seen from more , than half a mile away. ’ Despite the weather, about 800 people were present at the top of Easby where stands the monument to Captain Cook, overlooking Great Ayton, whan Mrs James Lithgow, the wife of the president of Middlesbrough Rotary Club, applied the torch to the great pile of timber, tar barrels, and other'combustible materials which had been stacked near the monument, j. Throughout the evening large numbers' j of people wore stumbling over the rough l ground of the hillside, floundering in the 5 heather and surface drains, in order to ’ be present on this occasion. ‘‘Surely,” t remarked a member of the Middlesbrough Rotary Club, “ the spirit of Cook cannot - be dead when people will climb hills on i a night like this to pay trifante to the ’ memory of a man born 200 years ago.” ’ Promptly at 6 o’clock Mrs Lithgow ap- ; plied the torch to the beacon,’and within . a few minutes the pile was blazing ; furiously. Stored in the centre were 50 ' tar barrels and other inflammable mate- . rial,, and when these became ignited the t flames roared in the wind, i On Eston Nab in similar conditions the l beacon was lighted bv Mrs Cockersoll, . r wife of the president of the Eston Rotary. Clubj -and on Wareeet the torch was ■ applied by Mrs F. W. Sibley, wife of" r the president of the Saltburn Rotary 1 Club. ' ’ ■ .Among many messages received by the Rotary clubs of Yorkshire was one from ’ the New Zealand High Commissioner. ; He wrote; ■ Hail to Yorkshire from far-away • New Zealand is perhaps the most in- | first white man to land on the beauti- | ful shores .of New Zealand 150 years > ago. It was then a land of mountains, , forests, and lakes, populated by fierce savages. Captain Cook planted the i English flag on New Zealand’s shores, and made it British for ever. ■ To-day New Zealand is perhaps the most ini terestirig, and certainly'the most productive. of all the great dominions. All this is due to the Yorkshire lad, humbly born, who loved this beautiful new country that he discovered. Every New Zealander reveres Cook as one of the greatest of Englishmen, New Zealanders, though they he 12,000 miles away, will join in spirit with Yorkshire in celebrating the bi-centenary of the birth of the great navigator. —A rabbit became lodged in the main water supply pipe at Cottingley, in Yorkshire, England, causing the village to be without water for a. whole day. —ln Morocco the face of a bride is painted white and red, and her hands and feet are dyed yellow with henna. —After spending 57 of his “7 years at Westminster Abbey, Mr Thomas Wright, clerk of the works, has retired.