AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PAT HANNA’S DIGGERS. PRINCESS THEATRE TO-NIGHT. Arrived to-day by train from !■ ivymonth irere Pat Hanna's Vice-regal Diggers, the company that have tho proudest record in Australia and New Zealand to-day. They are the only company that was selected and brought ' from Australia to play a season in the grand Festival Hall at the Dunedin Exhibition. In addition, they are the company who created the Australian and New Zealand long-distance run of IS nights at the Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane. The reason for these distinctions is mot hard to find, as this sparkling company have associated with them; doe Vnlli. Bert Gilbert, G. P. Hamm. Stan Lawson, Brian Lawrence, dim Koran, dock Thomson, Chris Kilner, Frank .McDonald. Bov Brinsden. Vera (.'arow. Iza frossley. Jessie Hanna. Bosefte Powell. Thelma Bittard. Wynne Thomson. Kathleen Lawranee, Olive Baker, Gwen Lewis. .Myra Bennett. Vera l!i\', with the Diggers' Superb Ballet and a full concert orchestra. Their quick succession ot items, ranging from burlesque to grand opera, includes melody interludes, male quartettes, sketches, novel episodes, ballot specialities, and musical scenes, with good clean Bigger humour permeating the whole with the touch ol originality and variety, for which the Diggers are justly famed. Ol the graver moments in this remarkable show, the Melbourne ‘‘Argus’’ said:

“Nothing so appealing nor so simply grand as Madamoiselle Irom Armcnticroft has ever been seen here helore. ' The Diggers are with us for one nigliL niily, and good advice Is to hook now. The prices arc (is. Is and 2s (plus tax) and the box plan is now open nL Mclntosh's.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. •■THE Gt'lhTY ONE," SAT EH DA Y. Tile management of the Princes, T boutiv announce that they will screen another Paramount pkture, with Agnes Avros a, the star on .Saturday, ’this is “ the. Guilty One" which is one of tiie. season's thrillers. Agnes Ayres, as the star, plays the ndc of a young u ii'c who becomes mixed in a scandal, and then her husband ami brother ale held for the murder ol the man with

whom, her name had been coupled. How she proves her tinioceiuv and finds the guilty one is the thrilling climax of Die story. Hubby didn’t want to go out, but- why should not his wife h,ave a good lime, and that was how It parted. Irene Slur! s ion louud that a gay life was more to her liking than -toying at home, and her husband rather encouraged her. till lie foil ml her name coupled with another man's in the town’s society scandal paper. Then the town woke up to find that the other man had been murdered. .Seaton Davies, well-known man about town, ami a dabbler in art. was found murdered in his Hat. Rumor said that hewn.s interested in Irene Short. the wife of Donald Short, and the laLter 'was: the last to be seen with the murdeivd man. The police ai'e also holding her brother who was caught running away from the flat at an early hour, inst after the crime had been committed. And yet. neither was the guilty one. Who was the guilty one? The answer to this baffling question provides one o) the I'lnlf, ot the Paramount pin ure, “I he Guilty Hue, which will he screened at the I’riue.'sr Theatre on Saturday. (',lining Monday, lli-liard I'ix in “.Manhattan."