ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17409, 23 May 1928, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

STRAND AND FRANKTON THEATRES A double star programme will be. presented to-night at the above' theatres, headed by "The Irrcslible Lover, - ' a Universal Jewel production featuring Norman Kerry and Lois Moran. In the second half Warren Brothers present "The Bush Leaguer," starring Monte Blue. In this play Monte appears as a gas-station-tender, who spends his time between customers and the neighbouring sandlot and on Sundays pitches for his baseball team. A scout from Los Angeles offers him a job and seeing a chance to make the proper contracts for the promotion of a gas pump which he has invented, he accepts. It is not long till he finds that professional baseball must be taken as a serious business and that his success in- depends upon his playing the game in deadly earnest. THEATRE ROYAL. The two "flaming youths" in the piece now showing at the Theatre Royal are those two moustached comedians, JV .C. Fields and Chester Conklin, who have at last been brought together after numerous individual screen and stage hits, to work as a team at laugh-production. It is a sort of second " childhood flaming youth exhibition in which Fields, as a veteran showman and owner of a struggling side-show, and Qonklin as a grizzled county sheriff, vie with each other for the affections of the widow. Cissy Fitz-Geraldl Conklin does his with a musical saw and fields with an array of juggling tricks. • It will be screened again with trie supporting picture "Jewels of Desire" to-morrow. HEUGHAN'S CONCERTS. To-morrow and Friday evenings Hamiltonians will have the opportunity of hearing William Heughan, who has been describee: l>y an eminent critic as having "the finest bass voice in the world." He is well-known to New Zea'Jaiiders from his former visit. lie ;s essentially a recital artist, and as actor, singer, and storyteller all in one he is well able to convey the message of his varied numbers. With him as assisting artists are: Maud Bell, the celebrated English 'cellist—an artist well-known in :,ondon and the capital cities of Europe, and Gladys Sayer, the well-known' pianist, who was associated with Heughan on his last tour. Two entirely different programmes are to be given here. Box plans for the two nights are now open at Lewis Eady, Ltd.