AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19830, 3 May 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

GRAND THEATRE li Subway Sadie.” a First National picture will have its final screening at the Grand Theatre to-day and to-night. Dorothy Mackaill Jack Mulhall ano Charles Murray are the featured players. Others in the cast incudc Peggy Shaw. Gaston Glass, Bernard Randall and Jack Raymond. This is an excellent photoplay, built round the romance of a New York working girl and a subway guard. The second feature, “The Futurity Winner,” is a splendid racing drama, with a good story and plot, and one of the most sensational cross-country races ever seen on the screen. Patsy Ruth Mil- ! lor and Kenneth Harlan play the leadI ing roles. To-morrow a complate ■ change will be presented when the i leading attraction will be James 01- • liver Curwood’s novi. “The Country Beyond,” starring Olive Borden and J. Farrell McDonald. “THE BEST PEOPLE.” The box plans for “The Best People” and “Meet the Wife” season which commences at the Opera House with II The Best People ’ ’ on Monday next, and closes with “Meet the Wife” on Tuesday, will be opened at H. I. Jones and Son’s on Thursday morning. The comedy of “The Best People” deals principally with the escapades of Marion Lenox (Miss Helen Audiffred) and tie Lenox (Mr. Richard Ehlers), v.O® are advance specimens of the younger generation. In spite of wealth and social position, son and daughter flout all restraint. Bertie becomes engaged to a chorus girl. Alice O’Neill (Miss Marion Sterly) and there follows a scene between his mother (Miss Beatrice Day) and his uncle. Grafton (Mr. William Macauley). Bertie’s father (Mr. J. B. Rowe) being a sensible father, tries to reason with his son, but ! all of no avail. Marion next informs her father and uncle that she is engaged to her mother’s chauffeur (Mr. Robert Adams). The father sees that there is nothing that can be done to make his children give up the idea of marrying beneath them, thinks only of his children’s happiness, and does his best to understand.

“Meet the Wife” Miss Helen Audiffred, who plays the part of Doris Bellamy in ‘ ‘ Meet the Wife,” Lynn Starling’s delightful comedy which is to close the two night’s season of Mr. E. J. Carrol’s Company of comedians on Tuesday next, is a collector. Miss Audiffred has developed a wanderlust since coming to New Zealand, which she now regards as a starting point for travel around the world. MUNICIPAL PICTURES Owing to the Opera House being otherwise engaged, the screening of pictures will not be resumed until Friday, when Florence Vidor will appear in a star attraction entitled, * ‘ The ! Popular Sin.” SCHOOLS’ CHOIR RECITAL ; On Wednesday and Thursday next one of the finest school concerts presented locally will be given in the Opera House by a choir representative of all primary schools of the city, and the Maori Mission School of Putiki will I contribute several choruses. An attrac- : tive part of the programme will be the : singing of national folk songs, English i Scottish, Irish and Welsh being particularly featured. Mr. F. W. 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 by the Primary Schools’ Musical As- . sociation. Reserves for the two recitals may be had at H. L Jones and Son’s. WESTMERE CONCERT On Thursday evening at the Westmere Hall, Mr and Mrs J. W. Bailey will give one of their delightful progr.'.jiimes. The items will include character songs and duets and numerous exceedingly funny sketches in coslume and otherwise. The programme will be followed by a dance. AT JUBILEE HOME The inmates of the Jubilee Home

were treated to a most enjoyable evening last Saturday when Mr H. J. Trussell’s Orchestra paid them a visit. Assisting the orchestra were Mrs J. Wright, a singer who delighted the audience with several songs. Mrs Trussell who contributed two violin solos, and the young musical trio, Nancy, Francis and Clifford Bridges, children who have made quite a name for themselves in Wanganui. Thanks are due to Mrs G. F. Bridges for conveying performers to the Home in her , car.