ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1426, 13 November 1923, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

/ .*. | WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE COWBOY AND THE LADY. "One of the gamest actresses I ever saw!" This was what Charles Maigne, director, said of Mary Miles Minter, Paramount star, on the return of the company from a six weeks' sojourn in Wyoming, where the exteriors for "The Cowboy and the Lady," in which Miss Minter is co-featured with Tom Moore, were filmed, and which comes to the Empire Theatre on Wednesday. Mr Maigne's eulogy of Miss Minter's bravery was inspired by her performance of the big thrill stunt of the picture, in which she slips from a fallen tree which lies across a chasm and falls some 25 or 30 feet into a pool and the rapids of the stream below. A double had been provided to do this perilous drop. The scene was made, and Miss Minter, watching from the side lines, exclaimed: "That doesn't look so bad If he can do it, I can, too!" At her insistence director Migne agreed to let her make the drop. She took the plunge without wavering, and the scene was made. "Now I can take pride in the fact that the work in the picture is my own," she declared, after being rescued from the swirling rapids. Miss Minter's portrayal fit her role also involved some d|ifficu(lt ;liorsemanship and other dangers attendant upon making scenes in the rough mountainous country chosen as the locale for the exterior scenes.

THURSDAY NIGHT

"THE SPORT OF KINGS."

Racing plays are specialities with British producers, and they have always been successes. In "The Sport of Kings," to be screened at the Empire Theatre on Thursday night, we have the finest example of this type of picture for many a day. The action is fast and furious, and the plot well -told and interesting. There is a boxing match, which is marvellously done, a hurricane of speed and thrills. There is also a steeplechase full ,of incident, and a flat race. The heroine is played by an exceedingly pretty English actress named Phyilis Shannaw, and Victor MacLagen is the leading man. He fits the part like a glove. The scene in the club when the hero throws the villain over the club balcony is another high light in the production, and the whole play is so fascinating and so fresh in treatment that it is a credit to old England. GIRLS* CLUB CONCERT. Considerable interest attaches to the presentation to-night of two screaming farces by members of the local Girls' Club, for it marks the first public appearance of local talent under this organisation. The members have been practising assiduously for some time past, and as the sketches are said to be screamingly funny the public will be afforded ample scope for the indulgence of their risible faculties. Though the personnel of the chief performers is a state secret, information is that all are word-per-fect in their respective parts, and the dress rehearsals have been progressively good, until the public presentation to-nigiht should prove a big success. All the characters are taken by young ladies, the idea being to convey, especially in "The Election Petition, 1950," an indication of what will ' actually happen a quarter of a century hence —when man the despised will be relegated to his rightful place of dish-washer, clothes mender, cook, and cradle-rocker, and his "better half" will conduct the affairs of State —national and civil—with all the powers and privileges at present enjoyed by the now "lords of creation!" The concert takes place in the parish hall.