TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 146, 22 June 1936, Page 3

TAIHAPE

GENERAL NEWS 1 f At the monthly meeting of the TaiIhape Borough Council on Friday evening, the application of the Majestic Theatre to screen a suitable picture on Christmas Day was granted, subject to I the councill’s approval of the film to' bo screened. Cr. Wilsher strongly op-po.-c.l the application, stating that it was riot right that anx body should have to work on Christmas Day. Cr. Loader supported Cr. Wilsher. Urs. Robinson, Bowater, and Ryan thought that the application should be granted and pointed out that pictures were being screened on Christmas Day in the cities this year. “If people want to go to the pictures on Christmas Day I don’t see what right we have to interfere,” declared Cr. Ryan. 'rhe Taihape Borough Council decided on Friday evening to grant the same privileges as last year ’n regard to the injured players’ benefit Rugby match. A sub-committee consisting of the Mayor and the chairman of the Electric Light, Works, Domain, and Finance ' Committees was appointed to go into the matter of restoring “cuts” in the wages of borough employees to the 1931 basis. The sum of £.lO 15s was realised for a 3pyear-old Polled Angus bullock, ■ which was offered for sale on behalf of Air A. J. Alickleson, of Winiata, at the Nexv Zealand Farmers’ Distributing Company’s stock sale at Taihape last Wednesday. The pui'chaser was Air W. C. Gregory, a local butcher. This bullock was deemed by experienced cattlemen to be the best seen jn the local ' saleyards for many a long day. THE MAJESTIC. “LONE WOLF RETURNS.” He's at it again! Fiction’s favourite adventurer, cracking safes as easily as , a smile, doing a two-step while one step ahead of the police! It’s Ihe 1 Lone Wolf, the man who’d steal anything from a diamond to a kiss! You’ll find him on the screen of the Majestic Theatre, starting to-morrow, in Columbia’s production of the Louis Joseph Vance newel, “The Lone Wolf Returns.” The Lone Wolf is portrayed by Melvyn Douglas, the stage and screu star who gained enormous popularity through his performance with Claudette Colbert in “She Alarried Her Bc-ss.” With bis hand in a safe, his tongue in his cheek, and his eye on a beautiful girl, the Lone Wolf carries on in his merriest, maddest ad- , ventures! The girl referred to, is none • other than Gail Patrick, who plays the role of a wealthy heiress and jewel ! collector who turns the Wolf from his i crooked ways in most surprising fashion. Featured in the cast are Tala Bireli, Henry Alollison, Thurston Hall, Raymond Walburn, Douglass Dumbrille and Nana Bryant, Roy William Neill directed. Joseph Krumgold, Bruce Alauning and Lionel Houser adapted the story to the screen.