ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3682, 25 August 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

There was a fair and appreciative audience at the Masonic Hall last night when a company of Shannon performers assisted by local talent gave a variety entertainment in aid of the Methodist Circuit fund. The performers were handicapped in the various sketches for lack of stage facilities. The Rev. Mr. Perymau presided and,like a good chairman, did not impose lengthy comments upon the audience. The programme consisted of dialogues, sketches, vocal and elocutionary items and concluded with songs and choruses by the Shannon Excelsior Entertainers. Mesdames Yeo, Cronquest, Mss iChalk, and Messrs Leng Ward, ! Cronquest, G. F. Smith, Chrystall contributed vocal items, Messrs A; Milner and Riches elocutionary items, and pianoforte selections byMr Leng Ward and Misses Vera Quarrie and Mona Ingley. Misses Delany, Quarrie and Peryman and Mesdames Westwood and Cronquest played the accompaniments. ' The playettes and dialogues caused much amusement, and the performers were heartily applauded. Messrs Milner, Riches, Cronquest and Smith were very successful in their humorous impersonations. At the conclusion the performers were accorded a hearty vote of thanks, which was carried by acclamation. The visitors were entertained at supper before "departing for Shannon. “THE EXQUISITE SINNER.” Under the title of “The Exquisite Sinner,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a screen version of Alden Brook’s popular novel, “Escape,” with Conrad Nagel and Renee Adoree in the leading roles. This new attraction will come to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday. It is the story of a young Frenchman whose longing for romance ended in him shattering the bonds of convention that bound him to a drab existence, and seeking the elusive happiness with gypsies -on the open road. Already wealthy, he was disgusted with the soulless craving for money that was the life ambition of his family, and he found in the carefree, nomadic wandering of thfc gypsies the simplicity and contentment he had craved. Also “King of the Kitchen” (comedy), and News. Usual prices. J. Farrell MacDonald, Corporal Casey of “The Iron Horse,” comes to our screen on Saturday in support of Olive BLrden in Fox Films version of James Oliver Curwood’s “The Country Beyond.” He will be seen in the lovable role of “Singing” Sergeant Casey of the Royal Northmest Mounted Police. Prices will remain as usual for this feature.