A TOUCHING SCENE.
HOMAGE TO DEAD KING. The screening of Dickens' classic work “The Old Curiosity .Shop” in the King's Theatre. Pahjatua. on the night following his late Alajesty King George Vl.’s death was a fitting programme and during interval the proprietors threw a silhouette of the dead King on the screen. A recorded version of the beautiful old Hymn Tr ßock of Ages.” was then put over on the panotrope. and as the of the music died away. Bandsman H. A. Biek sounded. “The La st Post " The pations were visibly moved during this unexpected interlude, and there was a poignant hush over the building for some moments after the last sad notes oi the call had ceased to c cho in the building.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13163, 23 January 1936, Page 5
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125A TOUCHING SCENE. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13163, 23 January 1936, Page 5
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