AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 10 October 1930, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

‘CAUGHT SHORT“I now decline you to bo mini mid wife The minister wns just about to say these words, and then the stock market crashed! And this situation is' hut one of tho many filled with laughs in the new -Marie Dresslcr-Polly Moran talkie comedy for Metro-Holdwyn-Mayer. The title is ‘Caught Short’Mario and (Polly, corprotagQ'nists in a long list of successful fuudilms are a pair of improvorished Now York land-ladies- Polly experiments with tho stock market. Fliers in “American Cheese’’ and “Smcllwell Soap’, ]>rove successful, and she eventually entices Marie into the mystic mazes of Wall Street- Coed friends are parted frequently by the quarrels of prosperity, and when this happens it also throws the monkey wrench into a budding romance between Marie’s daughter, Anita. Page ,and Polly’s son, Charles Morton. How things aro straightened out to the satisfaction of everybody, especially the audience, is told in such a masterful humorous way that sore sides will he the ‘order of the day’. . MAORI MISSION PARTY. Stratford is to he favoured by a visit from the distinguished Maori Mission Party of the Methodist Church. The festival takes place in the Town Hall on Monday. There are representatives of the various leading tribes of Maoris in New Zealand add all of them are distinguished singers, orators or musicians. During this month they are travelling through Taranaki and they have' 1 had crowded houses. At Hawora last week hundreds were turned away, th e large Town Half being -unable to accommodate the groat throng who came to hear.