AMUSEMENTS,MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17936, 2 August 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS,MEETINGS, ETC.

EVERYBODY'S. I DOUBLE PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. i Two special star features will be prej rented to night. The ' first star will ' feature Miss Gladys BrecKwell in “Chas- | ing Rainbows,” which is a tale with a ,J)ig heart interest and many human situations. Nearly all the scenes are I laid in a town of the Wild West, with I the gambling houses and saloons of the I gun practice type. The second feature !is a big comedy drama featuring AL i bert Ray, in ‘’Love is Love.” “Ga/y 'bands.’- played by Albert Ray, is shown as a young thief who has been raised by a criminal, but Gary is in love, and his girl tries to get him away from his evil companions. Gary, after making good his escape after being wrongly accused of theft, makes for a town in the West, where he makes good, and after a long search for his sweetheart, finds her, and everything ends happily. In addition, the Australian Gazette will be shown. HIS MAJESTY’S. I COMPLETE CHANGE TO-NIGHT. ‘UNDER SUSPICION.” To-night another change of programme will be screened at His Majesty’s. when the great Dury Lane melodrama in six acts. “Under Suspicion.” will be screened, in which two famous English aitists are featured, Miss Hilda I Bayley and Mr Horace Hunter. The I usual supporting programme is strong, and includes a Topical Gazette, “Ilai 1 j Luck Bill,” a rollicking comedy full ot I fun from start to finish, and specially j arranged music by Fuller’s great torches-* i tra. The plan is at Upton’s til] 6 p.m., I afterwards at the theatre, or by ’phone, i OUTSTANDING WILLIAMSON ATTRACTION. ' "SLEEPING BEAUTY" PANTO- I MIME. The box plans for the one and onlyperformance of the J- C. Williamson "Sleeping Beauty” pantomime, will be opened at H. I. Jones and Sous cn Wednesday next. The performance will be given on Friday next at a quarter to eight. Probably one of the most inviting and romantic of fair?stories is the charming legend -of “The Sleeping Beauty,” a tale cf transient glamour that has been selected by the J. C. Williamson firm as the subject of their 1920 pantOr mime. Contemporaries a¥e unanimous in praise of the wonderful effects, gbrgeous costuming, aal astonishing colour schemes—a series of elegant and delightful effects. A special feature this year is the music. As to the principals, it would appear that the management have been exceptionally lucky in securing ’the cast. Such world-famed artists in the pantomime world as Misses Winifred Roma (principal boy), Eve Lynn (principal girl), Margaret Sutcliffe, Miona Stewart, Margot Lester, and Maggie Dickenson, together with Messrs Marriott Edgar (the Dame), George Welch, Sidney Culver, Herbert Leigh, and the brothers Egbert, form a nucleus of what, should prove an admirably strong principal organisation. Qf the twenty scenes, probably the most striking will be found in the splen did transformation scene, the king’s gardens, the dazzling palace scenes, and the fascinating “Oriental Garden.” "The Sleeping Beauty” is splendidly adapted to both young and old.