AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

'ITIE FUTURISTS

At Princess Iheatre to-morrow (Wednesday) evening the English .Futurists will pay a return visit lor one night only. Very pleasant recollections remain with local patrons of the previous visit, and the Company come again with increased strength and tin entirely new programme. It can safely he said that till who see the talented Company on Wednesday will he laughing over the feast of fun provided by these popular merrymakers. It is seldom that travelling companies treat us with such an amount of comedy as that provided by the Futurists, and more seldom is the Coast visited by two such comedians as .Messrs Joe Brennan and Dismal Desmond. These two funmakers make one forget even the mixed weather condition and all the little troubles of everyday life. A whole host of nett items are promised. The entertainment will he on tiie “quick-fire” line, set as a -standard by the Futurists—there will he no

waiting and a, laugh guaranteed every moment throughout the programme. There is a saying. ‘‘Laugh and grow fat.” If this is so. Hokitika will have to take on weight-reducing courses, after the termination of UnEnglish Futurists season. The box plan is open tit Misses McTntosh.

EVERYBODYS' PICTURED

CORIX.YE CHAMPIONS A XHW WORKING CTRL.

Cotinne Criflith proves herself the champion of the romantic working girl in : 'Syncopating Sue,” her latest comedy vehicle, which comes to the Princess Theatre next Friday. “Classified.” was the first of a series in which .Miss Griffith attempted subtle comedy, and the picture met with the instant approval of the picture-going public. Critics declared it one of the ton best pictures of the year. In “Classified.” .Miss Griffith glorified the stenographer. In “Mile. Modiste" she was a struggling dressmaker, and now in the same vein conies “Syncopating Sue.” with Corinne cast as a song-plugger, said by New York reviewers to be even hotter than her two previous domedy successes. Directed by Diehard Wallace, who learned his directorial science ‘making comedies on the Dal Roach lot. Miss Griffith enacts the role of a romantic Xew York store piano player, who yearns for a career on the stage. This ambition and her love for a penniless orhestra drummer gets her into circumstances which, while awkward and perplexing to the stage-struck .girl, nevertheless proves highly amusing and entertaining to an audience. Tom Moore, of the famous Moore riumvirate, is Miss Griffith’s leading man in “Syncopating Sue,” and the remainder of the., cast is of equal high oviderj including ’Rodkliffo Fdlowes. Joyce Compton. T.ee Moran and Sunshine Hart. ; \ first class supporting series will also l>o presented on "Friday ineludinn the first episodes of the new serial “’Fighting With Buffalo Hill,” and a good comedy.