AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 61, 23 May 1928, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. "THE CaltOUS ACE." Tom Mix is ahv!.iy s a busy man on the screen, but in "The Circus Ace, his latest Fox Films starring picture, now at the King's, he i s busier than usual. The story opens with Tom grabbing the parachute of a beautiful girl who has just cut loose from a balloon sent up to advertise the performhnee of the circus.

Tom's trail leads back to the big top, where he is chased to the root. He steps on a bit of rotten canvas and falls to the porch of the trapeze performer. He lands long enough to see that the tranpeze performer is tlie parachute juniper and tumbles into the life-net, from which he bounces to the back of a horse, •where he lands on bis feet. With this introduction the romance begins and the story leads through the eleian-up of a gang of political crooks- who havo kept the town subject to f/bng rule. There is a, romantic conclusion when Tom's gun writes a. mossagj? of lead reading "I love* you," while the trapeze performer nods her reply "the same to vourself:"

Among the others in the cast with Mix and Miss Joyce are Duke Lee, James Bradbury, Jr., Stanley Blystoue. Dudley Smith, Edna. Gregory and William Caress. CONCERT COMPANY.

These celebrated artists who are making their second world tour have recently arrived in the Dominion after a phenomenally successful tour of Canada and the United States. They can only give one con-er.-t in Stratford, and music lovers will he given an opportunity of hearing them at the Town iHall on Saturday, 26th instant.

Dawn Assheton is a coloratura soprana with sensational vocal power and a fascinating personality who has been acclaimed by he criics of the entiro world as the most gifted and versatile singer England has produced during the last decade. In Addition to a glorious voice with the unique range of three Octaves ("G"

Ito "G"), she lias a stage presence that has inspired some of the greatest portrait painters to paint the artist's likeness. Associated with Dawn Assheton is Laszlo) Schwartz, the distinguished Hungarian violinist-composer and author, who is already well known to New Zealanders, not only on-ac-count Of his brilliant •..compositions and his prolific contributions to musical journalism but by conception and interpretation of music on the violin of which he is a master of world-wide renown. Rarely has any visiting" artist caused such universal .discussion as Dawn Assheton after having performed in ' Wellington, Hastings, Napier and Palmerston •North. Her sensational vocal power and magnetic personality and, test but not least, her wonderful gowns are electrifying; audiences. Seats may be reserved at Grubb's. j