AMUSEMENTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160740, 28 August 1920, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S. WILLIAM RUSSELL AND MADLAINE TRAVERSE. For to-night only two startling dramas will be screened at His Majesty’s, when Madlaine Traverse wall be seen in “The Iron Heart,” a powerful society drama Hi six acts. The huge plant of the Llewellyn Iron Works, near Los Angeles, furnished a most effective setting for this powerful drama, which has as its theme the story of a young girl who, with courage born of her faith in dared to take over the personal direction of a big business and undertake the preservation of the social welfare of -ts hundreds of employees. 'The second feature will serve to introduce William Russell in a bandit stirring drama, “The Lincoln Highwayman.” Prom the beginning on© realises that there must be some trick in Jimmy Clunder apparently turning bandit. The problem increases in interest as the situations develop, and it is not solved till the last few minutes of the feature. The setting of the play is certainly unusual. The locations along the Lincoln Highway are of great pictorial beauty. But the chief interest of the play lies in its suspense, which is well sustained. The final surprise effectually turns the tables on the rival wooer. Lois Lee makes a very attractive heroine, around whom much of the action revolves. Edward Piel is seen as the rival suitor. Others yi the cast are Harry Spangler, Frank Brownlee, Jack Connolly, and-Edwin Booth Tilton. Emmett J. Flynn, the director, as usual has done most competent work. The usual supporting programme will be shown, and special music has I-eon. arranged by Fuller’s great orchestra. The plan is at the theatre, where seats can bo booked for to-night. “MOTHER HUBBARD” PANTOMIME, The “Mother Hubbard” pantomime, which commences a Wanganui season of two evenings and a matinee at the Opera House on Thursday next, aims at surprising the audience into a state of risibility from the rise of the curtain. It is one of the few; pantomimes which burst upon the house with a blaze of colour and yet set a furious pace that is maintained without slackening throughout three hours. Messrs J. and N. Tait, in conjunction with Bailey and Grant, are responsible for the production, and incidentally it may be stated that this is the first pantomime the firm has brought to New; Zealand. Barry Lupino and Jack Cannot are the chief funma.kers as the mother and father of the Hubbard family respectively. Wanganui theatre-goers will also welcome the return of that remarkable pair of simultaneous dancers, Moon and Morris. In “Mother Hubbard” their Mutt and Jeff impersonation constitutes one of the'outstanding novelties of the shown Miss Daisy Tates, the leading girl of the company, registers a genuine success everywhere, and a similar remark applies to the principal boy of Miss Dorothy Leigh. The Creightons, whirlwind jugglers and acrobats; William A. Hassan, the popular animal impersonator ; Elsie Parkes, dan sense; Colin Crane, Kelso Henderson, Ethel Walker, Gertie Latchford, Les Coney, and Bert Nicholson are only a few of the other members of the cast. Altogether, it is claimed that “Mother Hubbard” is calculated to please those in front, whether young or old, and the “kiddies” will doubtless look forward with enthusiasm to the matinee on Thursday afternoon The box plans open at H. I. Jones and Son’s off Monday next.

Y.W.C.A. GIRLS’ HOSTEL. The violet and primrose stall held on Wednesday in front of the “Economic” shop, and which was organised by a committee of ladies in aid of the above effort, had a very successful day’s business. The sum of i>2s was received for the day's work—a splendid return. The hon. secretary and treasurer (Mrs T. C. Taylor) desires, on behalf of the ladies’ committee to thank all those friends who patronised the stall and those who so kindly sent gifts of flowers, etc.