AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVEBYBGDYS PICTURES.

A TRIPLE STAR PROGRAMME 'I O-NIGHT.

To-night at the Princess Theatre a trij .e star programme will bo pre•o* :.'d headed bv an amazing picture uf darkest Africa, with its wild beasts, its fearsome serpents, its cannibals and ii pygmies | Proclaimed by cmiim'i,: suientisu and naturalists as the greatest motion picture of all time, Ren Rurbridge s '‘ The Gorilla Hunt” will Tie shown at the Princess Theatre to-night. The' film is intensely interesting. not only as a contribution to contemporary science, but also as a thrilling drama of big game shooting in the* dense jungles of the uulai Congo country Rurbridge lias secured in this film the only motion pictures ever taken ot tho gigantic ape-men of Africa. Not only lias lie pholographed them, but has kidnapped their voting from beneath the very eyes of the infuriated gorilla/ herd-. Tho ln-L word in Adventure! Ac l ■ m! Thrills! Realism! Things you’ve' never teen the fore. The., u 110. x 7 plor-cl African jungle brought before your eves. T'*e eeoml attraction .in • to-nigliPs dis -l-'y wil l bo the. lima! nicturo of tlie Gro.vmouih Trotting Club’s meeting or. Labour Day. . r >

And la«t but not least “In Old Kentucky.” All tlie thrills, the drain a., and fly l heart -stifling emotion invr ri!v a -'-o'-ia ted with ahorse racing.

“the’.sport of kings.” are to 1:0 found in “In Old Kentucky.” a Metro-Hnldwi-Vaycr sneeial attraction now showing °( the Princess Theatre, with .James Murray, the great young newcomer to the screen in the loading role. This • unusual picture ha*.- for its theme (be war’s eject through bad com pa 11 ion sl> i u on a. youth of Tveii-t’u-kv. and the subsequent trouble and lieart-bi"'ak-’ h-* ■'><■• l- :s family, and his '-"'"ct-hcart. is veiv hum. ai'ly portrayed. Helene Costello \~ the leading latlV. wITD ''pc Icy Rail-' Edward Martinde! and SPonlion Vetch if. famous negro comedian, also -appear in the great cast. Usual prices to-night.

Caning Tuesday. Dolores' Costello in “A Alillion Bid.”

THE COWBOY BAND,

WEDNESDAY NEXT.

Tlie Cowboy Band which is billed to appear at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday next are controlled ' .by Fred Mayfield and have been "gathered from the great ranches of Canada, and consisting of nine musicians wlio play, in all. thirty.seven instruments, The most that is possible to say is that this orchestra is equal in talent to the best that have yet visited the country. Fred Mayfield’s Band, is a ■i :>/;• - .;V*S i 1.'.-'S strictly modern one, and specialises in modern music, and, though t]ie players give an excellent account of themselves in the classics and in works of” standard composers, they obviously arc at their happiest in the jolly old jazz. In this region of their art they ii’-e presenting, for the first time in Hokitika, the. latest American “hits,’' which will -be heard in the city next winter. Only nine of them, but surrounded by their thirty odd instruments, they make as equally brave a showing as they do a ..hearing. Tile Cowboy 'Band is a picturesque enough company on the stage. They are dressed as the.conventional cowhov always dresses, and as Mr Zane Grey and his fellows have given him to us.- Before a back-drop representing ~n-every-day scene -on -a, . western ranch,' they bring the final note of atmosphere into their turn, and establish ;t’ current "of .friendship between them and their audience. After the concert a grand dance will ho held in the Drill Shed which has been specially leased for the purnose, and dancing taking place from 10.30'p.m. till 2 a.m.