AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19541, 30 March 1926, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES ‘ 'PETER PAN’ ’ Everybody should see this picture, says ‘ Photoplay. ’ It is more than a tonic, because it not only revives memories of youth, but makes you youthful. If you are young you will live and triumph with Peter Pan in the glorious episodes that your imagination ever dreamed. If you are old, you find yourself young again. There is so much good to this picture that one is left wondering how it was all done so flawlessly. Sir James Barrie wrote the story, Herbert Brenon directed the picture, and Betty Bronson lived Peter Pan. Mary Brian was the spiritual Wendy. Every other member of the cast is also entitled to praise, from Ernest Torrence down to the tiniest tot in the picture. The performance of each was flawless. "Peter Pan” proves that all the fairies are not dead. In our childhood we believed in them, in fact, we knew there were fairies. If, in after years, we came at times to doubt their existence, we learned from “Peter Pan” that our doubts w r ere wrong. “Peter Pan’’ could not have been produced without fairies to guide it through the beautiful scenes. The more we think of Betty Bronson the more we marvel at her perfect performance. Not only the expression in her face but the way she stood and walked, and the grace that she showed every instant caused us to feel that she was truly an ethereal child who never could grow up. And anybody who can !do that is, in reality, Peter Pan. There |is another phase of the picture that ■ caused us to marvel, and that was the [photography. The beautiful bits done by Virginia Brown Faire as Tinker Bell pent an enchantment that was needed to make the picture perfect. And that is v hat it was—a perfect picture of a i perfect story, with a perfect cast. Peter ' Pan will be screened at the Opera House this evening. Y.M.C.A. PHYSICAL CULTURE CLASSES The physical culture classes of the ; Wanganui Y.M.C.A. have been growing i every year, and still promise bigger i things. Classes ure held for young women, girls, men and boys and are in the hands of experts, who give a thorough physical training based upon scientific principles. The following is the timetable:—Boys, 8 to 10 years, Saturdays, 9.15 to 10.15 a.m.; 8 to 12 years, Saturdays, 10.15 to J 1.15 a.m.; 12 to 14 years. Tuesday and Saturday afternoons, 4.15 to 5.15; secondary schoolboys, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5.45 to 6.30 p.m. and Fridays, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.; senior employed boys, Tuesdays and Thursdays, time to be arranged; men, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 to 9.30 p.m.; young women, Mondays, 7 tc 9 p.m.; girls, Wednesdays, 4 to 5 p.m. A class will be formed for business men if sufficient enrol. Further particulars may be obtained from the Y.M.C.A.