TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 282, 2 December 1935, Page 3

TAIHAPE

BIG WEE STUNG BOUT. GEORGE WALKER v. WONG BL'K CHEUNG. The Rangitikei Wrestling Association has made definite arrangements for a bout between George Walker and Wong Buk Cheung to be staged at the Town Hall. Taihape, this month. George Walker is a great draw card and his bout with Wong Buk Cheung should be one of the best ever. The pair met at Palmerston North recently in one of the brightest bouts seen in that centre tor many a long day. Their match at Taihape should be worth going a long way to see. Particulars will be advertised. GENERAL NEW’S. The voting at Taihape last Wednesday on the licensing question resulted as follows: National Continuance 939 State Purchase and Control .... 80 Prohibition .. 231 A total of 1250 votes were cast on the liquor question compared with 12G0 recorded at the Parliamentary poll. MAJESTIC THEATRE. 4 ‘ IDA VID COPPER FI ELD. ’ ’ With an all-star cast fairly scintillatI ing with ‘ * big names,one of the ! most elaborate screen presentations of i recent years opens to-morrow at the i Majestic Theatre for a four-day season, ilt is “David Copperfield,’’ Charles i Dickens’ favourite novel, which comes !to life with its myriad of interesting ; characters through the medium of the film. Sixty-live stars and featured i players make up the “key” characters iof the cast. W. U. Fields creates the immortal Wilkins Micawber, Esq., the improvident but happy wastrel who is “always expecting something ta turn up.” Frank Lawton, who distinguished himself in “< avah ade,” plays the adult David <’opi»erfie!d, and the child role is played i»y one of the brilliant juvenile discoveries of recent years, a 10-year-old lad named Freddie Bartholomew. Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans. Maureen O’Sullivan, Edna May Oliver, Lewis Stonx, Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew. Elizabeth Allen. Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, Elusa Lanrhester, Jean Uadell Jessie Ralph, Lennox Pawle, Violet Komble-Cooper, Una O’Connor, John Buckler, Hugh Williams, Ivan Simpson, Herbert Mundin. Fay Chaldecott. Marilyn Knowlden, Florine McKinney, Harry Beresford, Mabel folcord, and Hugh Walpole these are among the distinguished players who were chosen to create characters that are immortal figures of literature.