SELF-HELP CLUB ENROLMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1931, Page 10

SELF-HELP CLUB ENROLMENT

SIXTY-EIGHT - MARRIED MEN JOIN.

Although nothing in the nature of an organised canvass has been attempted donations received in cash or in small goods by the'Stratford-Self-Help Club already total £lo. Sixty-eight married unemployed men have so far enrolled and the committee has fixed to-day as the closing date of enrolment. Mr. N. B. Fletcher, chairman of the unemployment committee and of the Self-Help Club, yesterday invited the enrolled members of the club to meet tile committee at a social evening in tlie Parish Hall on Monday, when the practical work of the club will be arranged. RELIEF FUND BALL. The next important ball to be held in the town hall, Stratford, is booked for Thursday night When the Scottish Society. will; hold one for tlie Hospital Board relief fund. The promoters are sparing no pains to make this the most successful ball of the season. Th© work of decorating is in the hands of a competent committee and something unique is promised. Nothing but modern dancing will be on the programme. PERSONAL. Mr. Ritter, Eltham, is confined to bed with a poisoned leg and it will be some time before he will be able to' get about again. “PLAY YOUR KING” AT ELTHAM. . The Stratford Amateur Operatic Society will present its wonderfully successful musical comedy “Play Your King” at the Eltham Town Hall on Monday. ’ This is. the best effort of the society, and the.public has recognised this in no uncertain manner. Crowded houses have greeted King Mitzlm of Boronia on each of his appearances upon the stage, and his audiences have laughed at his royal progress through a series of hawraising adventures and his adroitness in love. The Eltham public will appreciate his Majesty, fully as much as have the public in other towns, for he possesses a big retinue of sterling performers with him. “Play Your King” is the best thing in cheerful entertainment which has been seen for a very long. time. . KING’S THEATRE. “M ANSLAUG HTER.” In 1;922 Alice Duer Miller , wrote a ‘‘best-seller” novel, “Manslaughter." - Cecil B. de Mille produced it as a silent moving picture with Thomas: Meighan and Leatrice Joy in the; leading roles. Both the book and the picture 'Were-sen-sations. Now Paramount has ‘ transferred the thrilling drama oL “Manslaughter” to the talking screen. Claudette Colbert and Fredstc March play the leading roles in this audible moving picture which George Abbott adapted and directed. Brought up to date, inspired with Abbott’s genius, “Manslaughter” is even more of a sensation on the talking screen than it was either as a novel or as a silent picture. “Manslaughter,” which opens a four-day. run at the King’s Theatre, starting this afternoon, is richly produced and filled with speed and vivid verve of the new-day children of wealth. It opens among the play-boys and gay girls who ride and swim and make merry in the society whirl. . It turns to the serious side of life, as tragedy grips the most daring and carefree of these gorgeous people. It develops into a tremendous conflict of love and hate, with a handsome young attorney pitting his strength against the wilfulness of a ■ beautiful girl.