TEMUKA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18844, 6 April 1931, Page 2

TEMUKA.

1.0.0. F. At the fortnightly meeting of the Waitea Rebekah Lodge on Tuesday last, Sister Pulford, N.G., presided over a big attendance of members. Bros. Evans and McCabe were present from Geraldine, and were accorded a hearty welcome. The Visiting Committee reported the two sick sisters improving, and now able to be declared off the sick list. Two accounts amounting to £2/15/were passed for payment. Correspondence was received from Bro. Crooke, Grand Secretary, acknowledging receipt of money for the earthquake relief funds. The social committee’s secretary reported arrangements well in hand for the next social. The election of officers for the ensuing term was completed and two candidates were Initiated into the Order. Bro. Harris, Grand Lodge representative, gave a very interesting report on his recent visit to Auckland to the Grand Lodge session. It was decided to send invitations to Waihi Rebekah, Victoria and Alexandrovna Lodges to be present at the half-yearly installation ceremony which takes place next lodge night. This being all the business, the lodge closed in due form when a competition evening was held. Prizes were won by Sister O’Connor, Sister Ives, and Sister R. Davis. A picnic supper concluded an enjoyable evening. PERSONAL. Mr F. L. Murphy, who has been spending a holiday in Temuka, has returned to Napier. Miss L. Hope and Miss H. Longson are spending the Easter holidays with their parents in Temuka. “ MONTANA MOON.” Joan Crawford, usually associated with society drawing rooms and flapper boarding schools, will be seen in a new environment in “Montana Moon,” her latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offering, which will be shown at Temuka this afternoon and again to-night. This production was made on a cattle ranch in the San Jacinto Mountains, bOO miles north of Los Angeles, where Miss Crawford, together with her director, Malcolm St* Clair and a supporting cast which

included John Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez, Benny Rubin, Cliff Edwards, Karl Dane and Lloyd Ingraham established location headquarters. The story centres about the daughter of a retired Montana cattleman who comes from New York to visit her father’s ranch for a vacation. Here she falls in love with a cowboy but the wide difference in their social positions seems an impregnable barrier to their happiness. The ingenious method by which the rancher finally convinces the Eastern girl that she could be contented as his wife is said to give the presentation much interest. The picture is made more attractive by a number of songs, sung by the featured players and by a chorus of 50 cowboys who introduce several of the traditional cowboy ballads and ditties. The will be a matinee to-day at 2.15.