LATE SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING

DEPARTURES. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 22. GALE. s.s. (midnight), 934 tons, Stanish. for Wanganui. WAIRAU. s.a. (mianight), 143 tons, Jacksou, for Blenheim. BY TELEGRAPH. OVERSEA. SUVA, February 22. Shileti.—Ashburton, for Auckland. BY TELEGRAPH. COASTAL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. LYTTELTON. Sailed.—Maori (8.15 n.m.), for Wellington.

REGENT THEATRE. A. crowded audience at the Regent Theatre last evening were amazed and delighted with tho remarkable entertainment provided by the Kwong Sing Waits, a band of seven Chinese magicians, conjurers, acrobats and balancers, who for upwards of half an hour put on a performance which was as varied as it was novel. In tho most finished manner this troupe of Oriental won-der-workers mystified and even astounded the big house. After Long Tack Sam, everyone expected something out of the ordinary, and they ..certainly got it in full measure last evening. Kwong Sing Wall, tho leader of the troupe, is a Hercules who stands over 6ft. in height and is of magnificent nroportions. Tho band excel as balancers aud acrobats, and nothing cleverer in this direction has ever been seen here. The climax to a brilliant and amazing series of acrobatics came in a human pyramid, in which Kwong Sing Wall supported in the air six other members of the troupe. The performance embraced marvellous exhibitions of conjuring, in which doves, bowls of water, baskets '.of flowers, aud all manner of articles were materialised from the very atmosphere. The house gasped when one member of the troupe dived through a circle of knives and a flaming hoop. Some novel cabinet tricks were performed, in which the members of the band disappeared and changed places in tho most mystifying manner. Ah Loong and Sun Sheen, the two boys of tho troupe, are wonderful contortionists. Plate-spinning and balancing such as have never before been seen here figure in the novel entertainment, in which there was not a dull moment. This clever band of Chinese athletes, acrobats and magicians created quite a sensation last night, and their season, which will extend until next Thursday, should prove a most successful one. The picture portion of the programme is ’of attractive character. The romantic story of the African desert, “She’s a Sheik," featuring beautiful Bebo Daniells, again bad a popular reception. Other films on .the programme include a “Krazy Kat” cartoon, a Christie comedy, “Oh, Mummy,” and the latest Regent Weekly News.” The orchestra, under the new musical director, Mr. Arthur G. Frost, aroused enthusiasm by their finished playing of the overture “Raymond.” There will be a pictura change to-mor-row night, whan the star film will be “A Gentleman from Paris,” which features that popular actor, Adolphe Meujou. QUEEN’S THEATRE. One of tho most interesting and colourful events of the days of the last American frontier has been made the basis of “Spoilers ot tho West,” Tim McCoy’s new Western film starring production, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and now at the Queen’s Theatre. The story is- based on the Laramie treaty between the Government and Red Cloud, Indian war leader, whereby the red mon obtained thousands of square miles of rich hunting grounds. Marjorie Daw and William Fairbanks support the star. Good supports are also shown, and capital incidental music is supplied. “EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE." George O’Brien, Virginia Valli, and J. Farrell Macdonald play the leading roles in Allan Dwan's picture based on Felix Ricsenberg’s novel, "East Side, West Side,” which will commence screening at the Queen’s Theatre tomorrow. "East Side, West Side” has what is considered an excellent motion picture plot. It is rich in New York atmosphere, and surrounds tho activities of a young man, reared in the poorest part of the city, who battles his way to ownership of a mansion on Fifth Avenue. All of New York’s celebrated sections have a part in the story, the Bowery, East Side. West Side, Heirs Kitchen, Gas House district, Red Hook Point, the Bronx, Washington Heights, Park and Fifth Avenues,