AMUSEMENTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15992, 8 December 1919, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S TO-NIGHT,

VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES

A three-night season of vaudeville and pictures opens at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night. The vaudeville turns comprises some of the best artists of the leading circuit. Unfortunately, the Camille Acrobatic Trio has been detained elsewhere. Keldine and Klimo are a pair of trick cyclists, one of whom in the role of a clown provokes hearty laughter with his droll antics and comic acrobatic work. The other displays brilliant prowess as a trick bicycle rider. The picture portion of the programme will consist of a magnificent Metro drama, entitled “Her Great Match,” in which Gail Kane, one of America’s leadring stage stars, plays the leading role. On the same programme is the “Cooperative t Weekly Gazette.” His Majesty’s Theatre has many times already proved the happy result attending the combination of pictures and good vaudeville, and no doubt the ensuing season will prove no exception. Book seats at Upton’s. CONVENT ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT. The Convent annual break-up entertainment will be given in the Opera House on Monday next, 16th December. Last year, owing to epidemic, the entertainment was omitted, but this year a very attractive programme has been prepared. There will be a number of vocal and instrumental pieces, drills, etc., and a very pretty operetta. The prices of admission are 3s, 2s, and Is. Patrons who have purchased a reserved seat (3s) ticket, will require to go to H. I. .Jones and Son’s, who have the box plan, to get their tickets marked. The exhibition .of pupils’ work will be held in the Convent, St. John’s Hill, on Saturday, 13th December, and Monday, 15th. Admission is free, and the Sisters of St. Joseph cordially invite the public to be present. TRINITY METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL. There were large congregations at Trinity Church yesterday on the occasion of the Sunday School anniversary, seats having to be placed in . the aisles at the evening service to accommodate the overflow. The Eev. G. F. Stockwell, of Feilding, conducted the services, and delivered earnest and forceful discourses. The ringing was quite up to the high standard of previous anniversaries, the various hymns and anthems being sung with an inspiring foreefulness and tunefulness, to the great appreciation of the congregations. The young soloists—Moira Bond, Annie Good all, Dorothy Rankin, Doris McAlister and Mabel Blamires-—acquitted themselves most capably. Hie former sustaining with great credit a difficult solo with chorus accompaniment. The. effect of tlie singing was greatly enhanced by the orchestra Under the leadership of Miss Violet Price, the conductor being Mr F. Webb-Jones. The anniversary celebrations will be continued to-morrow evening, when a tea meeting and entertainment will be held in the Schoolroom.

CAPTAIN ALLEN'S RECITALS. IN AID OF BARNARDO'S HOMES. A series of elocutionary recitals will be given in Wanganui next week, under fcho auspices of the Young Helpers' League, for the benefit of Dr. Barnardo's Homes. Captain Arthur Allen, an a-rmy chaplain, who is touring on behalf of the homes, will give the recitals, and will doubtless repeat the success he has met with elsewhere. He is described as a gifted elocutionist, and a worthy successor to the late Mel. He is exceedingly versatile, too, and equally at home in all classes of elocutionary work, whether reciting "How Bill Adams won the Battle of "Waterloo," "Battery L," "Stick it the Welsh," "E-übensein's Piano Playing," or "Not Understood." The first rectial •will be given on Monday evening next in' the Girls' College Assembly Hall, followed on Tuesday in the Technical College Hall, and on Thursday in the Wanganui Bast Town Hall, in each case commencing at 8 p.m.