AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19829, 2 May 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

THE GRAND ! An ultra-smart fashion show unusual i scenes in New York’s subway, a night i club scene that for sheer brilliance has : rarely been equalled a sweet and simple , story well told, well directed and? well I acted, are the outstanding features in i First National’s latest picture, “Subway Sadie,” which opened Saturday ' evening at the Grand Theatre. Doroi thy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall and Charles I Murray are featured. “ Subway I Sadie” is a story about a New York , working girl who meets a subway I guard. They fall in love, but the . romance is called off when Sadie gets . her cherished opportunity to go to Paris .as buyer for her store. The marriage ' that had been planned is indefinitely postponed, an,d the subway guard is I heartbroken. But he is injured in an ' accident on the day Sadie is to sail, j And Sadie comes to him. So they get married’ after all. After this comes the surprise of the picture. Dorothy j : Mackaill was never better. She is , ; convincing. Jack Mulhall acts the j ; part of a subway guard naturally and ! I well. Charles Murray is always am- 1 using, and he was never funnier than ; in the role of a taxi driver in this pic- ’ ture. The other attraction on this programme is a big racing drama from the novel bv Louis Joseph Vance 1 ‘The Futurity Winner,” which must be i rlassqd as one of the best racing stories seen on the screen for months. The leading roles arc played by Patsy Ruth Miller, and Kenneth Harlan. This will be repeated again ’ to-day and to-morrow at both afternoon and evening sessions. Seats may be reserved at the Grand Theatre. SCHOOLS’ CHOIR RECITAL O/i Wednesday and Thursday next j 7f(* z of the finest school concerts present- i <-d locally will be given in the Opera i House by a choir representative of all j primary schools of the city, and the I Maori Mission School of Putiki will i contribute several choruses. An attrac- ■ tive part of the programme will be the 1 singing of national folk songs, English Scottish, Irish and Welsh being particularly featured. Mr. F. AV. Slater has been giving the children of Wanganui schools instruction in singing for over six months, and the public will no doubt appreciate the work being done bv the Primary Schools’ Musical Association. Reserves for the two recitals may be had at H. I. Jones and Son’s. WANGANUI BURNS CLUB The Wanganui Burns Club will hold their postponed meeting in St Paul’s Hall on Tuesday at 8 p.m. The meet- ! ing will take the form of a short adI dress on Burns and Jacobitism and • many of the beautiful Jacobite songs ■ will be rendered. Already the club has increased its membership from last term and with an attractive syllabus. Members and friends are sure of an : instructive and enjoyable evening.