AMUSEMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12010, 12 March 1920, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

CHAUTAUQUA. The Lyric Quartette again delighted a large audience last evening, and their part songs and solos grave and gay, won rounds of applause. Their programme was not half long enough. . Judge Alden was introduced as ‘‘The silver tongued orator,” and he spoke on "The Needs of the Hour.” He is silver tongued and he dealt out a number of home truths, spiced with many witticisms. He spoke of the various ages, that of the Pilgrims who had gone out with the spirit of laying the foundation of mankind, the British spirit of loyalty and humanity, and the present age, which was one of gold and profiteering, and he severely condemned the profiteer—great and small. “5 Every nation that made gold its cod became deficient. He that to make better nations there should be a closer companionship between fathers and boys. One of the evils of the day was too much prosperity among the aristocracy and too much posterity among the poor. There were too many unwise marriages, and he suggested that instead of promising to ‘‘Love, Cherish, and Honour,” they should ‘‘Stop, Look and Listen.’,’ “When,” he said, ‘‘America entered the late war—late, ” there was a general laugh and ho surprised many by stating thai in that country one person in every ten was an alien. He assured hia readers that notwithstanding any hitch with Che League of Nations, America, an English speaking nation, could be depended on to unite with England in making a better world.

MARTON—TO-NIGHT. "THE HAYSEEDS COME TO TOWN.” When ‘‘The Hayseeds Gome to Town” (the second of the Hayseeds series which is being shown at Everybody’s to-night) was taken, it is estimated that upwards of 100,000 people saw scenes in it being acted. Practically every part of It was taken in a public place, and the crowds that gathered to watch Dad, Mum and their family of Hayseeds doing comedy stunts was enormous. The Sunday the film actors were at the Zoo people lost all interest in the monkeys, seals, and that strange animal that spits, and followed the camera man about. Also White City was specially opened for the Hayseeds to teat the experience of slipping the slip, riding on the mountain railway, etc. Thousands of the public cheerfully paid their money to come into the pleasure park and see the Hayseeds risk their necks and certain other portions of their human frames. "The Hayseeds Gome to Town” is described in the press as “One of the pictures you can safely take your mother to.”