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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS. Empress. empress. MPRESS. EMPRESS. THE Picture House. HARRY MOREY HARRY MOREY HARRY MOREY In. "THE GAUNTLET.” "THE GAUNTLET.” A stirring tale of the mountains, where moonshiners work and lends exist. Episode B—-" The8 —-"The Unvisiblo Hand.’ Continuous, 11 to 16. Telephone 8442. I EVERYBODY’S. Everybody’s. CONTINUOUS. CONTINUOUS. KING VIDOR’S Special Super-feature, "THEI TURN IN THE ROAD,” "THE TURN IN THE ROAD,” Starring HELEN EDDY, And LITTLE BEN ALEXANDRA, With AN ALL-STAR CAST. Excellent Supporting-Programme-Screening Times: 11.26, 1.5, 3, 4.55, 6.56, 8.45. Usual Prices. ’Phone 50. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! AND MONDAY, APRIL 4. Town hall concert chamber. TWO VIOLIN a pianoforte recitals RAY FOX and GORDON SHORT (Solo Violinistc). (Solo Pianist). Come and hear these two artists play the beautiful slow movement of Mendelssohn’s famous Violin Concerto and Sanasate’s Fantasia on "Faust”. (Gounod), and other gems for the violin. Mr. Gordon Short will play Beethoven’s noble Sonata in. E Flat (Opus. 81, No. 3); "Rigoletto,” Verdi-Liszt, and Brahms’ items. "Mr. Short’s masterful performance of ‘Rigoletto’ must have made all. present envious,” save an Adelaide critic. "Miss Rav Fox has the divine spark that differentiates the musician from the player,” says the same critic. PRICES—3s. and 2s. (plus tax). Plan at Bristol. Seats can be reserved for either price beforehand. H. H. TOMBS. Manager. BAND. TRAMWAYS MILITARY BAND AT ISLAND BAY, TO-MORROW (SUNDAY), At 3 p.m. THE HOME WITHOUT A PIANO IS incomplete—it is lacking in that • source of euHleas enferra-ininent and pleasure a good piano gives! Decide to make your home complete bv the purchase of a piano-a good piano Nowhere else in Wellington will such (satisfaction be attained as nt Begg s. Such well-known makes as BBTNSMEAD WINDOVER nwwqm JESSE FRENCH BREWSTER LYON AND HEALY carry their own guarantees of quality a 'we Sa offer Ct v°”y accommodating tenns which’ render" it easy to own a really worldly instrument'. CHAS. BEGG AND CO.. LTD., Manners Street, The Oldest Established Piano House in New Zealand. ATHLETIC SPORTS. WELLINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB. < PRACTICE will be. held at Lyall A Buy THIS AFTERNOON at 3 o’clock. All players are requested to be present.' ONLY A SPOON! ♦ HOW GIRLS EFFECTED CAPTURE OF BURGLAR. More like a chapter from a novel than an incident in. real life in the story of how two girls by mere bluff succeeded in capturing a burglar. The plan they adopted could not have been more simple, and the chagrin of the man when lie realised how easily he had been deceived was shown in the request he made to a policeman, to "kick me good and hal'd." — The scene of the adventure was New York and tho intruder was Michael Amio. with a criminal record, who was out of prison on parole. Amio apparently decided to go a-burgling again, and he chose for his exploit an apartment bearing on the door a brass plate with the sign: “Bertha and Marie Miller, archithe aid of hie jemmy he had no difficulty in gaining an entrance, but he was shocked when, a moment later, as he was going into the dark hall, a voice commanded him to “Drop it and hold up your hands! If you move a step 11l fill you full of lead.’ . •., n A’hard point pressed into the small of his back convinced Amio that the speaker meant the threat. ~ "Don’t shoot, ma’am; I wont he exclaimed as he promptly dropped his jemmy and flashlight, and shot up his h Jurt’ then, in tho dim light furnished bv parted portieres at tho other end of Hie hall, appeared a little fonui in pink pviamas, who exclaimed, Why don t the beast, Marie Whates he -JST-M t«." "£• "but I think it’ll do if you call a police--lUThe suggestion was quickly obeyed, and soon in response to the shrill blasts fr “I'islle, •< P” 11 "”',” "I’m "lad you’ve come. I m tired or holding “this spoon against JJ 19 remarked Marie, as she handed tho bu clat over to the policemen. "Spoon!” exclaimed • one of he officers "Is that what you footed him with? Well, I’ll be jiggerwH His companion burst into a roar of Then Amio pleaded to be When Amio appeared before tne Magistrate on the morning after ms mulnig adventure, and was committed to the Tombs Prison to await trial, he commented on bis experience. couple of skirts that have the gut to go into a business like, that in n citr of skvseraners like this naturally would bo capable of anything,’ be remarked to the Magistrate.