TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 3

TAIHAPE

GENERAL NEWS The monthly sitting of the Taihape Magistrate’s Court will be held before Air. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.AL, to-day. GOLF NOTES The Taumarunui Golf Club will visit Taihape during the week-end. The catering in connection with entertainment of the visitors will be carried out. by Airs. Lelievre and there will be no necessity for members of the Taihape Club to bring their own lunch. Alembers who did not play in the Alortland Rose Bowl bogey competition last week are allowed to play on Thursday and Saturday of this week if they so desire. THE MAJESTIC “ONE EXCITING ADVENTURE•’’ The most sparkling and thrilling story of a girl who couldn’t resist diamonds, and of men who couldn’t resist her, is coming to the Majestic to-day with the showing of Universal’s “One Exciting Adventure.” It is Binnie Barnes’ second American film. “Mutiny on the Bounty” To Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of the novel which thrilled twenty-live million readers —to Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone for their characterisations of Captain Blight, Fletcher Christian and Roger Byain—to Director Frank Lloyd and the entire Aletro-Gold-wyn-Alaycr studios— to any and all who participated in any way tn making it possible for the world to behold the magnificent entertainment that is “Mutiny on the Bounty,” the world pay tribute. It is a distinctive honour and I a great pleasure to the Ala.iestic Theatre to be able to present what must, be acknowledged by all as one of the greatest dramas ever made—truly .a new flagstone in the corridor of motion picture fame. The .eason starts on Saturday at 1.45, 6 p.in., and 5.45 p.m. Also screening Jn Al on day •and Tuesday, with matinees on both •days. SCHOOL BALL The annual fancy dress ordl of the Taihape District High School will he held in the Town Hall this evenirg (Thursday), commencing at 7 o’clock. The programme will include a senior and a junior grand march and several spectacular folk dances and novelty dances in addition tc the usual waltzes, fox-trots and one-steps. The junior grana march will be held at 8.18 p.m. and the seoia’ at 8.59 p.m. The Norwegian mountain inarch, which proved such a popular dance If't year, will be ycp&ted again to night, i One of the novelty dances to be presented by the senior girls is entitled 1 ‘ If All the W j?.d Were Paper. Tne | popular maxina wiij al»o be intjuded ■ ; d the programme. The fancy dresses will, of course, b° one of the chief attraction, rad I rumour has *r tnat there will be a Alussolini and a Haile Selassie .rnong ; those present. Come and see for yourselves. PERSONAL Mr. W. H. Roy, of Hamilton, has been appointed to succeed Air. R. AlcCronc as health inspector at Taihape and takes up his new duties in about a fortnight’s time. Air. Ale-Crone has received notice of i his transfer to Christchurch and will! be greatly missed in Taihape. where i he enjoys a large measure of popular- ! Mr. G. Al. Gray, who a student of Canterbury College, Christchurch., and a brother of Aliss Gray, of the I Taihape District High School staff, has just gained his B.E. (electrical) aud i B.E. (electrical-mechanical) degrees and will be capped with other successful students at 2.30 o’clock to-morrow I afternoon. . Aliss Gray will be unable to attend the capping ceremony. Airs. J. E. Hamill has left Taihape on a visit to Wellington to meet her daughter, Aliss Elaine Hamill, who has scored such a triumph on the stage in Australia and arrived in Wellington yesterday with the J.C.W. Williamson Company, which opens its New Zealand tour in the capital city on Saturday evening. The company is presenting three plays during its Dominion tour, with Aliss Hamill figuring most prominently in the cast. The plays to be presented are entitled “The Shining Hour,” “Night Alust Fall’ 5 and' “Fresh Fields.” Aliss Hamill plays the feminine lead in “The Shining i Hour,” which met with such a great I reception in Australia. The company • intends to play at Taihape early i.'i Jun«. but it is not known at present which of the three plays will be staged. Captain Gray and Lieut. Wilsher, of the Taihape Girl Guides, and five patrol leaders and a similar number of patrol seconds will attend the Mangaweka Girl Guides’ oirthday party tomorrow.