ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5136, 8 June 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. THE CANADIAN PIONEER. “The Canadian Pioneer,” Thomas Meighan’s latest picture, to be screened to-night, is a story of the loneliness of the Canadia.n wheat fields, of helpless dependence on the vagaries of the weather, of the strength and optimism of those building a new empire, ami of tire overwhelming effect it lias on tihe sensibilities of an aristocratic English woman suddenly thrust into these open spaces. H UMPH KEY BJ SHOTCOMP A NY. TO-MORROW NIGHT. The entertainment to be given by tliis popular and world-travelled company to-morrow night can be described as unusual and unique. The high standard set up on Hie occasion of their previous visit will be fully maintained, and the new preg'amme should make a genm-ous evening’s amusement. Entirely new production--: are t > he given, and in a saow v.hiclj, comprises the best in '.•lever comedy, opera, song, dance, ami topical burlesque it will lie diffiet','. to single out one number before another. Comedy will be the keynote, with “Scrateher” Ross in a screaming burlesque, “The Suicide Club” and “The Porter’s Dilemma.” while Charles Albert will be seen in an entirely different role. Elaine Maye and Mark Leslie have a new and original terpsichorean eecentri :it’, and Dorothy Ryder and Fred Webber have a decidedly novel singing,, dancing, and musical sketch.