AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16822, 30 May 1919, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

FULLERS' PICTURES. Tike Theatre Royal was packed last night, when the new Thursday night programme was put on. It was niceiy balanced and deAgnted everybody. In, the bag picture "Thirty a Week," Tom MooiTi, smding and debonair as ever, j makes a great hit zn what is a delightful comedy. lb is splendidly stag.*! aad enacted, and shows how a handsome chauffeur, at thirty doJars a week, can give cause for worry to a "Freddie" at thirty a minute. Tom Murray, the hero, wins from th© "Freddie," who is wortlh a lot of money, an heiress whom he has set his heart upon marrying. The girl i s ;Miss r Tallulah Bankkead, a famous New York' society beauty, and most charmingly does she play, her part. The courtship starts when Tom is sent out in the car to teach TalMah to' drive. Enginjc trouble develops, so tiha-tj the pair are out all night, and. this is followed by domestic trouble, so far as the parents of the heiress are Ooncern*d. The pair are eventually married and Tom takes his wife to his mother's home. Her rejected lover causes the' girl to leave her-,.husband, she having fren'■'•toid that he is unfaithful to her, but when the truth comes out, Tom is I acclaimed as pure • gold, and welcomed I as a son-in-law by liis wife's millionaire fatter and her haughty mother, while 'Freddie" is ordered from the housP. Supports include a fine Paths Gazette, j a further instalment of the Scarlet Runner' seriai, an infomative "Trip to" Blighty," and a delightful scenic entit'Jed; "A Trip to Bona on a Whaler." The scenery shown in this, *as well as the studies in bird! and animal life are worth going a long way to see- A whale is captured on tfhe journey, and tihe method of securing the 'blubber is well F.howh. The music was particularly good and'was a feature of the evening. I THE GHAND.

Patronb of the Grand last evening were again, captivated by Mabel ISformand, in "Back .to the Woods," a Goldwyn film of the laughable variety. The picture has as a background, many beautiful mountain and forest- scenes, and is beaut.fully photographed. The story is briefly as follows: —Mabel, the daughter of a wealthy merchant jwho has had to'make his way in the world, is tired.of the pampr-psd city life, and after. telling her foppish city lovers" to "take a little iron and quinine," as it may help"to make men of tihem, betakes herself to a villaga in the mountains, of which her fatlher is the sole owner. Arrived there she takes up the duties of schoolmistress. One day a sramingly half-witted ynutli enters the schoolroom and annoys Mabel'. A younp man, who has the appearance of a mountaineer, comes to her assistance, however, and they get into conversation. He tells her that his name is Jimmy. Mab>:l goes one be'fter and informs Itfm. that she is known as Sarah,' Jimmy is really an author looking for •'local colour," and he tries an experiment on Mabel whereat she becomes enraged, and when he tells h'-ar that he did it "just to see what a girl would; do under the circumstances," she decides to gat her own back. In the course of doing this, Jimmy is accidentally wounded and Mabd takes pity on him. and nurses hini back to health. She then finds that she is deeply in love,with him. She will net admit this, .however, and goes back to the city. The J manner in which the _ author meets her again and finally wins her, concludes a pretty.'story. The eightli chapter of the "House .of Hate'' contains some thrilling episodes, bub the identity of the Hooded Terror s+ill remains a mystery. An interesting film showing the Glaxo method of rearing babies was well rece'ved, as also* was a Gazette. Viol's* Capstick's orchestra contributed a suit-able mtisioal programme which was aDpreciated by tlhe audifence which filled the theatre.

SKATING. ' Lsurge attendances wera recorded fljfi both sessions at 01ymp : a yesterday. Today there will be one session only, commencing at 2.30. SCOTTISH SOCIETY. CHILDEiBN^S~EVENING. The Unitarian- Hall was packed to the doors last night when a most j.delightful children's evening was held. I Chief James Emslie presided and mad© I some suitable opening remarks in the . course of which he expressed pleasure ! at seeing such a large attendance and ! offered a liearty welcome to one and 'all. The programme was as follows: — .Pianoforte duet, 'the Missrs WhiteI bouse; Highland Fling, Misses Mo- ' Kenzie, McConachy, Allport, James, J Goddard, and Robertson; recitation, ' Master J. Home; song, Miss T. Sutherland; toe dance, Miss C. Potts; recitation, Miss M. Freeman; sean truibhas, Miss E. Hastie; song, Miss Mona "Wade; Irish hornpipe, Miss W. Jtusbridg©; song, Miss Vera Thompson; violin solo, Mr E. Latimer; hoop dance, Misses M. Johnson, H. Johnson, and M. Jackson; song, Miss R. Munro; sword dance, Miss E. Robinson; recitation, Master Boys; sean truibhas,,. Miss ' M. Fenton; song. Miss Brehaut; Irish jig, Miss C. Kyle; reoitation, Miss Cranston; Highland fling, Miss Blanche Boys; song, Miss W. Thompson; sean truibhas, Miss D. Shaw. Every .item was well received, the youthful' performerß being heartily applauded. The concert closed with Auld_ Lang Syne, and a verse of the National Anthem. Piper G. Hay played for the dances. A dance followed, for which music was supplied by Miss Davidson and Mr J. Blair.