AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

“REPORTED MISSING’’ WEDNESDAY. Tho Sclznick de Luxe attraction “Reported Missing’’ starring Owen Moore will bo shown at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. This picture has had a record run right through Australia and New Zealand and is considered the best comedy drama produced in 1922. Tin; story in brief is as followsßichard Boyd, a ne'er-do-well, becomes bead of the Boyd Shipping Company, by inheritance. Pauline, a flapper, determines that Richard shall do something lug. so she urges him to exorcise the company's option on a huge licet- of ships which J. Young, a Chinese merchant king, Inis his eye on. Young is aided by Andrew Dunn, general manager of the Boyd concern, whom ho has bribed. To get Richard out of Ids way, doling has him and Pauline shanghaied. The ship is wrecked. There is a rescue. Then a race between a hydro-aeroplane and a sea sled, a. fight in Young's stronghold, and Richard, who has been aided by his faithful coloured servant throughout the proceedings, gets the ships and the girl. The introductory title says this picture is designed as entertainment and nothing else. And that’s just what it is—.entertainment to the Oth degree, a mixture of comedy, slapstick, burlesque, melodrama, so cleverly put together that it is absolutely surefire. Seats for this big attraction can he booked at Mclntosh’s. Prices as usual.

THE WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS. THURSDAY NIGHT. Mr Edward Branscomhe’s Westminster Glee Singers appear at the Princess Theatre on Thursday evening, and it is safe to predict a successful season for this combination, with which is associated the glorious cathedrals of the Motherland and all that is finest and host in cur histiny. The Westminster Glee Singers consist office men and live hoys, who sing with almost ethereal beauty the diversified gems of English vocal music. 'Pho fleeting beauty of the boy’s soprano s voice begets treasured memories lor it is a ibing remembered with the tenderness with which one regards everything ycung, sweet and innocent. Iho boys of the Westminster Glee Singers, Masters Leslie Snow, Harry Collier, Ronald Thompson, and Albert Collier, possess in a highly remarkable degree, this precious gift, and so it seems that whoever is aide should hear them pipe, for in their pipes is English history of belief and of sang. The programme in addition to encore numbers will be as follows:—Quintet, ‘‘Take Tbv Banner,’’ The Gentlemen; Madrigal. “Let Me Careless and llnthoughtful Lying,” the full company; bass solo. “King Henry's Song,” Mr John Andrews; duct. “If I were u Bird”. Masters Walter and Collier; quartette, “The Banks of Allan Waters,” Messrs Reid, Vizard. Cunningham and Andrews; male a!to solo, “Rosebud,” Air Donald Reid; Hindi igab “I'm Going to My Lonely Bed”; ballet. “Now is the Month ill’ Maying" ; carol, “The Angel and the Shepherdess.” by the. full company. (It is requested that the bitter number be iceeived without applause). Tenor song “Linden Lea.” Mr Ellis Vizard; soprano solo, “Orpheus v.it.li flis Lute”; Quartet. “My True Love Hath My Heart,” Albert Cooper and Messrs Reid. Vizard and Andrews: baritone solo, “In Summertime on Bred.ni),” Mr Alfred Cunningham: lour nursery rhymes, “Little Miss Mullet.” “Uush-n-bye Baby,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Jack and Jill." by the soprano bays: and the well-known glee. “The Bells of St. Michael's Tower,” by the full company. Tho box plans are at Alisses McTntosh s.