AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLean'S pictures.

TWO STARS TO-NIGHT.

Mr McLean presents a grand double star programme to-night. The first picture is a Paramount entitled “Sham,” starring Ethel Clayton, and the other stars Mary Miles Minter in “Sweet Lavender,” a Real Art photoplay. These comprise a very fine programme that will delight patrons.

“OLD MOTHER, HUBBARD” PANTOMIME. PRINCESS THEATRE, TO-MORROW NIGHT. “Chu Chin Chow” which ran for years in London, only had seventeen performances to its credit in Auckland, hut “Old Mother Hubbard” pantomime ran in the same city twenty-two consecutive times, five more than the great Eastern play. This fact should speak for itself, and convince the play-going public that they are to see something right out of the ordinary in tonring companies at the Princess Theatre, Hokitika, on tomorrow and Thursday', May 3rd and 4th. Naturally, the expense of travelling a big city production will be heavy but the management feel confident that the public will recognise their enterprise bv attending in large numbers. The principal comedian is Mr George Harpur, an exponent of female characters of wide experience, and he is ably assisted in his fun-making by Mr Arthur Bertram, as Old Mr Hubbard. Miss Rubio Raymond as Sally Horner, and Mr Arthur Meredith as Ponto, the hungry dog. The shnpely-limbed principal boy is Miss Lidia Fanning, whose fine contralto voice is heard with Miss Audrey Carlyle in the pretty duets. •‘The Bamboo Tree” and “Kiss a Miss.” Miss Ethel Osborn’s, the .fairy princess, voice is extremely line. Her numbers include “The Pipes of Pan,” “The Nightingale’s Trill,” and “The Last Rose of Summer.” Intending patrons nr6 advised to book early for this city attraction at Miss McTntdth’s sweet shop, where seats may lie reserved without extra charge. The Hokitika season is to he brought to a close on Thursday niglit with the production of one of the finest pantomimes ever written, “Little Bo Peep.” Schoolchildren arc reminded of the special matinee on Thursday at 3.1.3 p.m., to which the little ones are to he admitted to any part of the theatre for the small sum of one shilling plus Id tax. .