ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2576, 25 July 1922, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE SNAPSHOTS The Snapshots might well bo termed “old friends under a new name,” for most of the performers are well-known as members of the Quality Performers; This combination appeared to a gcrod house at the Town Hall on Saturday night, and provided a bright, attractive programme, that was well received, practically every item being encored. Much attention had been paid to the presentation of the various items, some excellent stage effects being attained, while the costumes were very beautiful, more particularly in the opening chorus, “The Sleepy Pyjama Girl,” and the Oriental scena. Much humour was introduced in the programme, some of it a trifle overdone, but it was for the most part .smart and well served up. The programme was of sufficient variety to suit all shades of taste, and all present appeared to have a thoroughly enjoyable evening. The weakest part of an otherwise excellent programme was the part singing; in fact the addition of one or two really good voices would prove a Valuable addition to a smart company. TOWN HALL PICTURES “THE ROWDY” A shark fight is one of the exciting scenes in “The Rowdy,” the Universal picture starring Gladys Walton, which is showing at the Town Hall to-morroW night. With five great sharks circling about a small gasoline launch, the crew try to evade the huge creatures .that threaten every moment to. overturn the little craft and leave all of them to be victims of their fiendish appetites. When. oHe man accidentally fell overboard and into the fishing net, and when one great shark leaps upon him, only to be grappled with by another man who goes to the rescue of the first, there are thrills enough to cause even the, most, blase “fan” to sit forward in his theatre scat. 1 There is nothing faked about that scene; Jack Mewef, the leading man of “The Rowdy,” was a skilled shark fighter during his youth in Honolulu, where he was taught tho trick of killing then) with a certain large knife of peculiar workmanship, especially designed hy fhe natives to bring quick death to the dangerous monsters of the sea.