ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3603, 24 February 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

1 : JACKIE CLARKE AT TOWN HALL TO-NIGHT. A vaudeville engagement of great interest has ‘been made for the Town Hall to-night. Little Jackie Clarke who heads to-night’s programme is an Australian juvenile prodigy, who, as a comedian, impersonator, monologuist, and marvellous eccentric (lancer, has caused quite a sensation everywhere ho has played, both as a member of Francis Scully’s famous “Sunbeam Kiddies,” and more recently as a single turn. Everywhere this big little star brings down the house with his quaint, witticicms, his wonderful impersonations, and his finished display of eccentric dancing. To-night’s film programme will he headed by “Out to Win,” an exciting drama dealing with the operations of an international gang of crooks in their endeavours to secure a foreign mining concession. Clive Brook is the featured player. For this double bill vaudeville and pictures popular prices will prevail viz., 1/- and 2/-, children usual 3d and 6d. To-morrow (Friday) evening, Channing Pollock’s great moral drama “The Fool,” described as a story of a man who practiced what he preached, will head, the pi ogramine. .This is a tense drama of 9 reels in which Edmund Lowe and Mary Thurman are the leading players. It is recommended by the Censor as “suitable more especially for adult audiences.” Prices as usual. Saturday next Lon Chaney in “The Blackbird.”