AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1928, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE Blending the gentlemanly aggressiveness of Gene Tunney and the spectacular showmanship of Paul Whiteman, Vincent Loptz and Isham Jones into a .single characterisation for a picture, is the difficult feat performed by Thomas Meighan in his new Paramount production “We’re All Gamblers,” which opens to-night, at the Opera House. Only a man familiar with tho drama behind the struggle for success in tho metropolis could do it. During the years of his stage success and his subsequent rise in pictures, Mr. Meighan has probably known intimately practically all tho celebrities of his city. In the early scenes the Paramount star poitrays a professional fighter on the eve of a championship fight. His unusually fine physique made this easy. Later in the story he becomes the proprietor of a successful night club. This required aan entirely different technique. Reserve at Vare’s. COSY THEATRE Lovers of the great outdoors have a treat in. store for them when Harold Lloyd’s next gloom chaser, “The Kid Brother” comes to the Cosy Theatre tonight, because the greater portion of the picture was made in tho open spaces of California. The Lasky Ranch in Dark Canyon, just outside Hollywood, provided a large measure of tho locale in “The Kid Brother,” while the beautiful waters of Avalon Bay also provided their quota of “shots.” Tho story of “The Kid Brother” is set in a tiny town nestling in the mountain foothills. Lloyd gets away from the stereotyped feud yai-n, which has been dene to death in motion pictures, and throughout tho entire picture not a gun is fired. It is just a human interest comedy ripe with carefully correlated romance, drama, and thrills, the type of plot in which tho bespectacled comedian revels. That “The Kid Brother” will be another great success is beyond question for those who have seen Paramount’s current release acclaim it as being in a class with Harold’s best. What more could any audience possibly ask of a picture? Reserve at Vare’s. AMY EVANS AND FRASER G4NGE Mr. E. J. Gravestock announces that he has arranged for the two famous singers, Miss Amy Evans and Mr. Fraser Gangc, to mako a return visit to Masterton. They will give one concert in the Opera House on Thursday, May 31. No two singers have endeared themselves so much to New Zealand audiences' as these brilliant artists. Since their previous visit they have gone from triumph to triumph, In England and America, until to-day they are regarded as the greatest exponents of vocal art in their respective spheres. On their return to Lohdon after their Dominion tour, they lad a ■mighty reception and tho London ‘Westminster Gazette says: “Miss Amy Evans and Mr. Fraser Gange are certainly two of the best-equipped and most popular vocalists at the present time, and their success lias been prodigious. It is not in tho least difficult to understand how mightily they pleased their Australian and New Zealand hearers. Both are remarkably fine artists, who mako tho most of exceptional naiura! endowments. Both have splendid voices, which are a joy to hear. Their reception by a large audience last night could not have been more cordial.” Their success in • mcrica has been phenomenal, and Mr Gauge, on his arrival there, created a furore. Since then he has won his way to the position of chief oratorio singer in the United States, and the most Popular baritone in tho country. Miss Amy Evans has sung with conspicuous success at the Chicago opera, and has further added to ter achieve ments by her beautiful sin" g fo box nl?/ r<sCit ? k- Particulars of the t>ox plan are advertised.