AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 18

AMUSEMENTS.

i EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS FILM. The official film of the 29th Eucharistie Congress, held recently in Sydney, is being screened at the New Hippodrome, Empress, and West End Theatres. It is ecreencd at the New Hippodrome at ivur sessions daily (11 a.in. and V. 5. and % p.m.) at the 7.30 cession at th«» and at the 7.45 session at the West EnJ. At the New Hippodrome, the programme includes ".50,000 Dollars Reward*' anl "Irish Hearts."' -00.000 Dollars Reward" is a thrilling Western drama, starring K-α Maynard and bis horse Tarzan. The film. contains a number of the usual thrills •» be found in such pictures, but there ai-» also several now stunts. A charnikis romance runs through the sequence „? events, this element being provided or Maynard and Esther Ralston. Tareau usual, is as much the ftar of the picture as is Maynard himself. Again he displays an unusual intelligence, and front beginning to end of the story he boMs th~ interest or his audience. May McA\o\ "» starred in "Irish Hearts," which has b<vst described as "a comedy that does cot caricature, but characterises." The stoir deals with the "other" side oi New York--uot the gay supper clubs and roof gardevs but New York as it is lived by thousand* pf wage earners. It is full of romamlaughter and tears, lot* of gay advents* and good old Iriwh cheer. At the Empie* the big picture is "Seeoiid > Xone,"' the* second British naval picture to be'ma<]« within a few months. It is a rousin? ta & of the Navy, a picture full of the thrive that are part of a sailor's life. The story opens with the hero joining a naval training school. Then follow scenes in »t. a barracks at Portsmouth, and finally ehoie aboard British destroyers. It is the stonr of the bravery of a disappointed man. " BENEFIT CONCERT. A benefit concert will be tendered in t).» 1 ew-n Hail to-morrow evening to Mrs G F. Cater, wi low of the late Mr. Goor-e eater. Auckland's popular bandmaster and conductor. Leading- artists will contribute, o Jie programme. Xumbers will be girea. by the LyneQWtet, Mr . A lan McElwai£ Miss Alma McGruer. Mr. T. Harris, Mr Institute for the Blind, of which Mr Cater was conductor, and the orchestras o? the Auckland Orphans and the Auckland Savages, and others. MUNICIPAL CONCERT. ,i_ ln *. the . Town Hall to-night at 8 oV]ock the Municipal Band will be beard iu «hr,»movements from Beethoven's glorious, fifth bymphony. the grand march from t\ agner s. * Tannhauser." "Zampa" overture. Sibelius' "Finlandia," Drigo's "L*. Millions dArlequnv' Dvorak's Slavonic Uances. .\ns. 7 and 8. and-a grand eeletion lioni "Tanuhausejv' Voca! items Trill be sung b> Mr. R. J. Peter, tenor, wita Mr. Leu. \\ luttaket at tJie piano