ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2970, 3 December 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AUSTRALIAN LADIES’ BAND. (TOWN HALL TO-NIGHT, at 8.

The story of the pipes of Lucknow is top well-known to need recaptulation —how Jessie, feverstricken, heard far off, in her delirium, the swelling music of the bagpipes as Sir Colin Campbell swept on to the relief of the besieged city. Jessie’s refrain was “Dinna ye hear it, dinna ye hear?” One may ask Jessie’s question in Jessie’s words to-day, for down the breeze come the stirring strains of the pipes, played not. by buirly Highlanders, but by the bonniest, band of sweet-faced lassies that ever -gladdened the heart of man. For this is the Australian Ladies’ Pipe Band, the first of its kind in the world that, under the direction of Drum-Major Darwin, F.R.G.S., is making a tour of the world, and is taking New Zealand on the way. It has already had a most successful tour from Auckland to Bluff, and has met with the most unqualified praise wherever it has gone. The Press in every city and town where it has appeared has been enthusiastic in its praise, and now the New Zealand towns are being revisited on the party’s return to Auckland, before sailing for America, the Band is certain-of an even heartier welcome than on its first visit. Apart from the charm of novelty, the programme presented will make an appeal to the heart of the public, and as a variety entertainment alone is a first-class one. The kilted lassies are certain of a great welcome to-night with all their old charm and daintiness in an entirely new programme in the Town Hall. Intending patrons are re.quested to book at Heath’s.

MARY BICKFORD IN “LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY.”

To-morrow, Friday programme at the Town Hall witnesses the return to the screen of Mary Pickford in the type of role which made her famous. Her part in “Little Annie Rooney” brings bayk to memory her ever famous character in “'less of the Storm Country.” Annie Looney is the daughter of an Irish policeman who patrols a beat in Hew York’s Last Side. Annie is also the leader of a gang of “Kids” who constantly wage war on a rival gang, therefore the fun is fast and furious —but there is also drama, and even tragedy at times: —but all comes right in the end for Annie and her Joe. William Haines and Vola Vale lead a tine supporting cast. Prices 1/- and 1/6, children as usual 3d »uui 6d. D. W. Griffiths 10 reel super picture* “Sally of the Sawdust” heads a big programme at the Town Hall on Saturday. The charm of circus life and carnival merriment for the background is illuminated with the joyful gaiety of two characters new to the screen, a side-show entertainer, juggler and handyman with other people’s pocketsj and his ward who believes she is his daughter and who loves and fights for him. The comedian’s part is played by W, C. Fields, for years famous laughmaker of the stage and now star of the Ziegfield “Follies.” The daughter’s part is played by Carol Dempster, the young Californian girl who has made such sensational advances in lrer screen work in the last year. The part of Sally Mc.i Gargle, the whimsical, impulsive waif of the circus, who idolizes her ~ “Pop,” and accepts his greatest rogueries as the perfection of “a noble, honour-able gentleman,” -is the best work of her career and one of the memorable triumphs, of screen acting. The scenes are lavishly staged, varying from circus activities to the social splendours of beautiful homes. And as typical of Griffith’s work, the action grows to a sensational finish, including one of the most hilarious scenes ever screened in which the irrepressible Me Gargle drives his car across country in an eftort to get to the courthouse to save Sally from disgrace. ROYAL PICTURES. George Larkin, the talented screen star, returns to the silver sheet in his latest five-reel photoplay, “The Tango Cavalier,” to be screened at the Royal Theatre tomorrow night. He is seen posing as the famous exponent of the tango, and gives an exhibition of same in a splendid manner. Small wonder

that the heart of Carmelita, the beautiful 5 senorita, went out to this handsome Don, and when she found that he was in love with Doris, the wealthy ranch owner’s daughter, her passion knew no bounds. She had the girl spirited away to have a clear field for herself, but our hero had pledged his love for Doris, and did he fight! Oh, boy! The battle of the Marne was a picnic compared to the battle he gave the bandits. If you want to see a rattling good picture see “The Tango Cavalier.”