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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 120, 18 February 1928, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS. The extraordinary demand on the Box Plans at Christchurch. Auckland, YY’anganui, PEOPLE YVIIO “NEVER GO TO A THEATRE” RUSH TO "BEN-HUR.” Napier, Hastings, and Dunedin, has no parallel in the annals of New Zealand. PLAN'S ARE AT BRISTOL. BE WISE—BOOK. KING’S, FRIDAY, AT 2.30 and 8. AT Q QA — AND EVERY DAY AT THE SAME HOURS. — AT Q AT — AND EVERY DAY AT THE SAME HOURS. — AT “BEN-HUR IS MORE THAN A PICTURE—IT IS A YVOHLD’S CHALLENGE TO ALL PRODUCERS.”—AUCKLAND "SUN,” 17-12-27. HONOURED BY EVERY CROWNED HEAD IN EUROPE. "IT IS A GLEAMING GLORY.”— ‘PRESS.” METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER’S SCREEN MIRACLE. Never Before Never “A Blaze of Beauty” ("Press”), which took three years to make—"BEN-HUR” cost over £1,000,000 (pounds sterling, not dollars) —Fred Niblo directed it—Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced it—lso,ooo people appear in it—3G miles of film were “taken,” now reduced to 12,000 feet (192.000 distinct photographs—many coloured). Ramon Novarnj “Ben-Hur”—Betty Bronson is an unforgettable “Madonna”— May McAvoy is “Esther”—Francis X. Bushman is “Massala” —Winter Hall is “Joseph,” and all present wonderful characterisations. PROLOGUE, “THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.” PRECEDES “BEN-HUR.” SOLOIST, MR. YVILLIAM GOUDIE. POPULAR PRICES: 1/- to 2/9—MATINEES, 1/6 and 1/-.

WELLINGTON FIRE BRIGADE’S GRAND OPEN AIR JOY NIGHT AT CONSTABLE STREET FIRE STATION, ON ' SATURDAY, MARCH 3, ’At 8 p.m. J® AID OF THE FREE AMBULANCE PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS DANCING COMPETITION, TICKETS, 2/6, AT ALL FIRE STATIONS, G. A. MACKENZIE, Hon. Seeretarjs

ATHLETIC SPORTS. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS AT THE BASIN RESERVE! THE CHAMPAGNE OF CRICKET BY THE LEADING PLAYERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA VERSUS THE WELLINGTON REPRESENTATIVES (HOLDERS OF THE PLUNKET SHIELD) TO-DAY (SATURDAY) AND MONDAY 11.30 to 1.30, 2.15 to 4.15, 4.30 to 6.30. A. VARNEY, Hon. Secretary, W.C.A,

BUSINESS NOTICES. FIRE NOTICE. MILLER AND AHEARN HAVE REMOVED TO THE EMPIRE BUILDINGS WILLESTON STREET, AND HOPE TO HAVE THEIR DOORS OPEN FOR BUSINESS OK TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21