HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Saturday Night’s Dance. The cabaret dance which is being arranged by the committee of the Police-Press Charity Day is to take place on Saturday evening next in the Elrick. The previous annual dances held by the organisers have been an unqualified success and several deserving charitable causes have benefited considerably from the day’s functions which are always concluded with a jolly dance. The committee is making ambitious efforts for the success of the Police-Press dance and special carnival effects, ballets, etc., are being arranged. This dance is always looked forward to by a large number of Wanganui dancers. An excellent orchestra has been engaged to play the music for the modern and old-time dances on the programme and the Elrick management will give its best attention to the “inner man” as regards supper. There is no doubt that the public will turn out in larger numbers than before to enjoy the evening’s entertainment. Tho Australian Journal. Do people read serials nowadays? Once, of course, readers took most of their literature on the instalment plan, I so to speak, but are moderns content | to wait thirty days or so between chap-

ters? It all depends on the serial. , When you find a story with the grip- ’ ping qualities of “The Closed Door.” , Agnes Provost’s new Australian novel, ! the first instalment of which com- ! mences in The Australian Journal for j September, you’d be less—or more— ' than human if you didn’t want to i know what happened next. The Journal i also contains some notable complete and well-illustrated stories by Australian authors of the calibre of Gertrude Hart. Rann Daly, Xavier Herbert, Harold Mercer and Myra Morris. All the usual feature sections, including cookery, fashions, knitting, needlework, embroidery and radio are present. Six pence buys this 152-page issue, which is wrapped in one of Esther Paterson’s most pleasing cover designs.