TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 5

TAIHAPE

ST. PATRICK’S DAY DANCE. The first big dance of the season will be held ou St. Patrick’s Day (Tuesday, March 17), in the Town Hall. The function is in aid of St. Mary’s Church funds, and elaborate preparations are in ’-.and to make the dance one of the best that has ever been held in Tailiape. The music will be provided by the Alelody Boys’ Orchestra, and the programme will include novelty dances. A particularly good supper will be provided, and patrons can rest assured that no detail of organisation that will add to the pleasure and success of the occasion will be overlooked by the lance committee, which is sparing neither time no reffort to make the dance something to rave about. Particulars are advertised. ST. PATRICK’S DAY SPORTS. Attention is drawn to an advertisement in This issue concerning the annual St. Patrick’s Day sports, to be held on Thursday, March 19, on the Recreation Ground, Taihape, commencing at 11 a.m. The running events include 75. 100, 220, 440, 880 and one mile handicaps, primary schools’ 100 yards championship, ladies’ 100 yards, 120 and 220 yards hurdles, anil children’s races. The cycling events comprise one, two and three-mile handicaps, and the boys’’ half-mile handicap. The horse events will, as usual, be a feature of the sports, and include the open pony jump, maiden hunters’ jump, open hunters’ jump, maiden pony jump, and leaping competition (steeplechase style). National dancing will figure largely on the programme this year. A Paddy’s market will be hell in the Town Hall on the night of the sports, when all the fun of the fair will be offering, and games and com* petitions will be interspersed with musical items. TENNIS NOTES. TAIHAPE v. OHAKUNE. The following team will represent Taihape against Ohakune at Taihaue during the week-end: —Bradley, N. Lelievre, Glennie, Casey. Gordon, Alaclean, Dick, Harsant; Afesdames Price, Pirrit, Percy; Misses Couper, Welch, J. Ryan, I. Anderson, Casey. At a recent meeting of the committee of the Taihape Tennis Club, Afr. Ted Maclean ( treasurer) was farewelled by the president (Mr. L. B. H. de Lautonr) and members of the executive. Air. de Lautour paid a high tribute to Mr. Maclean’s services to the club and wished him evry success in Afarton. The speaker added that Afr. Alaclean would be greatly missed and Taihape’s loss would be Marton’s gain. MAJESTIC THEATRE. ‘‘NAUGHTY MARIETTA.” Choice of “Naughty Alarietta,” Victor Herbert’s classic operetta, which screens to-day and Afonday at the Majestic Theatre, as the vehicle for filming the screen’s first great musical adventure story, has brought to picture audiences one of the greatest musical works ever composed. Produced on a spectacular scale by Afctro-Goldwyn-Afayer, with Jeanette MacDonald, the Sonia of “The Merry Widow,” and acknowledged one of the greatest singing stars of the sciecn, and Nelson Eddy, operatic, baritone, hailed as a sensational “discovery” among- romantic leading men. “Naughty Afarietta” was filmed as a thundering drama of romantic days, a vehicle that gives to the famous Victor Hubert music the importance it merits. Afiss MacDonald plays a princess who masquerades as a casquette girl, and Nelson Eddy as a British officer in New Orleans. An elaborate cast surrounds the famous singing principals including Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester (Airs. Charles Laughton), Douglas Dumbrille. Joseph Crawford and Cecilia Parker. A complete new first half will be screened with 11 Naughty Marietta.”