STARS IN THE STREET

Southland Times, Issue 25419, 22 October 1935, Page 9

STARS IN THE STREET

PERRY AND BRADMAN.

MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCE ON FRIDAY.

Stars are more often seen in the sky than the street, but on Friday evening two stars of the first magnitude, Fred Perry and Don Bradman, will make their appearance on Dee street and will be pleased to autograph any books that are handed to them by admiring citizens. Mqpy other celebrities will be in evidence among the crowds that throng the footpaths on this busy evening. Like Perry and Bradman, they may only be impersonations, but they should be none the less' entertaining. And they will serve to draw attention to an event of exceptional interest to the city—the tennis-cricket carnival which opens in Victoria Hall on Friday at 7 p.m., continues there on Saturday and terminates on Rugby Park on Monday (Labour Day) with a dazzling sports gala in the afternoon and a bewitching Mayfair Night when dusk falls. In Victoria Hall there will be firstclass entertainment for the eye and the ear, for the young, the middle-aged and the old. The most lovely girls in Southland will display their charms and the latest bathing suits in a beauty parade, the most talented player of a marimbaphone and a glockenspiel which the Dominion possesses will give delight to the audience, those gifted children, the Jordans, will provide an entertainment which though short will be snappy, scintillating and satisfying. Wheels of skill will whirr, darts will bring money to expert throwers, pins will fall before straight eyes and steady hands, and from stalls piled with articles to eat, to wear and to adorn the home with, purchases may be made with the assurance that amazing value will be received.

Mystery parcels which may contain anything from a cigar to a ton of coal, from a corkscrew to a bottle of champagne, will be on sale in Victoria Hall both on Friday and Saturday and at Rugby Park on Monday. A very wide variety of articles, orders, household necessaries and luxuries, has been procured. Those who say “Bang goes saxpence” will never regret their investment. Labour Day, 1935, should be remembered for many years to come, since both in the afternoon and evening there will be hours crowded with enjoyment and thrills on Rugby Park. A sports programme, including running, cycling and motor cycle novelty events will be offset with such laughter-provoking happenings, as a wheelbarrow derby for decorated ladies, a sulky race for political aspirants, a tug-of-war between the heaviest masculine tennis players and their counterpails on the cricket field, a similar contest between the slimmest girls who wield a bat and a racket respectively, pillow fighting for boys, cycling and other events for girls. In the evening there will be fencing, wrestling, trick cycling, items by the Battalion Band, side-shows, amusement zofies and to cap all a dance on the green, with a great many participants in .fancy dress.