NEWS FROM MARTON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 34, 10 February 1941, Page 3

NEWS FROM MARTON

quarter Finals in bowling ■ FULL-RINK COMPETITION I (Own Correspondent.) MARTON, Feb. 9. The quarter-finals in the full rink championship were played on Saturday, and wins were obtained by rinks skipped by Hamer, Caverhill, Tilley and Goebel, who will meet in the semi-finals next Saturday. Following are the results of the quarter-finals:— Williams, Finnimore, Thomson, Hamer-16, v. Morris, Freeth, Ferens, Morrison 26. Cairncross. Winchcombe, Nuttall, Caverhill 27. v. Denbow, Mogridge, Callan, Rayner 16. Green, "Baines, Todd, Mildenhall 18, v. McDonald, Healey. Kilpatrick, Tilley 21. Tolley. Gibbs, Hempieman, Goebel 30, v. Robinson, Watt, Bland Atkinson 16. Club Games. | Wales, Gibson, Brabyn 15, v. Fowler, I Fowler, Barton 19. i Sanders, Ashton 35, v. Brown, | Lourie 10. ■ MARTON NAVY LEAGUE SHOP. Help the Navy! A shop will be held to-morrow, February 11, in the Auction Mart room, proceeds of which will be devoted to the Marton Navy League branch who are doing magnificient work in providing comforts for the men on the high seas. Stalls of needlework, cakes, flowers and produce of all kinds will be filled with saleable goods, and cakes and cooked food can be ordered from the walking buffet. A jumble sale of old clothes will also be held and donations will be gratefully received for any of the foregoing stalls. Tea, with scones, sandwiches and cakes will be served from 10.30 a.m. to-morrow, in the shop formerly occupied by the N.Z. Farmers' Distributing Company (next to Watson Bros.’ store) for the small price of one shilling. The jumble auction sale which was held on Friday, January 24, resulted in the goodly sum of £7l, this amount being received from the sale of goods, afternoon tea and donations. Donations were received from Mrs. J. A. Harris. Mrs. E. G. Briant, Mrs. and Miss Howard, Miss Simpson, Miss E. Powell and Mr. W. Stevens, and the committee express their thanks to the public of Marton and district for their excellent support. PLAY AT HUNTERVILLE WIN FOR MARTON RINK Six rinks from Marton, five from Hunterviile and one each from Mangaweka, Bulls and Wanganui took part in a progressive full-rink tournament at the Hunterviile bowling green at the week-end. The visitors were entertained at morning and afternoon tea and enjoyed the day’s outing. A Marton rink, skipped by Callan, and a Hunterviile rink, skipped by Ansley, tied with three and a-half wins each and in the play-off Callan’s rink (Robinson, Petrie, Miles and Callan) won. The results of the games were as follows:—Callan (Marton), 4i wins; Ansley (Hunterviile), 31; Boswell (Hunterviile), 3; Ashton (Marton), 3; McKay (Hunterviile), 3; Tilley (Wanganui), 3; Morris (Hunterville). 3; Thomson (Marton), 21; Stevens (Bulls), 21; Brown (Mangaweka), 2; Hamer (Marton), 2; Rayner (Marton), 2; Barton (Marton), 1; Clark (Hunterviile), 2. AT THE CIVIC THEATRE. SPENCER TRACEY IN "EDISON THE MAN.” Marked by another sterling performance on the part of Spencer Tracy, who again demonstrates the fact that is is Hollywood’s leading actor, "Edison, the Man,” will be shown finally this evening in the Civic Theatre. As Thomas Edison, Tracy has a roie that fits him like a glove. This is becoming a trite but true description of Tracy's screen work, for it is difficult to remember a role that Tracy hasn’t made fit him. The story itself is so filled with real drama that it is almost unbelievable that all of it actually could have happened in the fife of one man. Truth, it is proved again, is really much stranger than fiction. Although Americans remember the beloved Edison as he was in later years, this story is of the inventor as a young man a man who is a youthful genius because he was only thirty when he invented the phonograph and thirty-two when he achieved the electric light. Tracy does a few brief scenes as Edison as we remember him—at eighty-two but the body of the story is of a young man’s career. Supporting Tracy is a cast of fine performers, with outstanding portrayals turned in by Rita Johnson, who certainly will go places after this one, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn. Gene Lockhart. Henry Travers. Felix Bressart and dozens of others.