ENTERTAINMENTS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4712, 16 June 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

LYNCH FAMILY BELLRINGERS. TONIGHT. There will probably be quite a number of people in Paeroa who have never heard of campanology. This art, although comparatively little known, has its origin in the dim past. The word is derived from the Italian word for a bell, and hence denotes the art of playing upon bells or change ringing, as it was called. The art is exclusively English in origin, and was practised in England as far back as the 17th century. It is many years since Paeroa has been treated to a campanologian concert, and to-night the concert to be delivered by the Lynch Family is to be as given by them in all parts of the world. The bells —some a,s large as church bells, some only a few inches high—are laid on a table and manipulated with wonderful dexterity so as to provide a cascade of sound. The bells have a note remarkable for its clearness and purity. They will be assisted by Mdlle. Brighta le Marchant, soprano ; Miss Aida Reynolds, monologist; Mr Harry Baxter, comedian. Seats may be reserved at Flatt’s for one of the greatest musical treats in the history of Paeroa. GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE COVERED WAGON. A magnificent epic of the early west is Jamies Cruze's Paramount production, ’’The Covered Wagon,” which will be the feature at the Gaiety Theatre on Wednesday night. This is a picturisatipn of Emerson Hough’s new novel of the same name, and it is said to be one of the greet,test photoplays ever seen on the screen. The features embraced in this story are many and varied, and include among others the start of 350 covered waggons from Wfestport Landing (now Kansas City) in 1848. The terrors of fording freshet rivers, prairie tires, and the like are depicted with great realism. A buffalo hunt is one of the most exciting scenes. Old Fort Bridger with a night attack aud fight by day with Indians is shown. The dividing of the trails to Oregon and California at old Fort Hall, a touch of the gold fever in California, magnilicenl mountain shots, and a culmination of the romance with the establishment of one of the first home-, steads in Oregon—these are all incidents in a picture that bristles with big scenes. Such historical character a« Kit Carson. Jim Bridger, and Bill Jackson. scouts and typical western characters, are portrayed in the picture, and the various rotes are in the hands of well-known screen players. The leading man is J. Warren Kerrigan, and the leading woman is Lois Wilson. Alan Hale is the villain. Others in the cast include Tully Marshall, Ethel Wales, Charles Ogle, and John Fox.