ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3727, 8 December 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TO-NIGHT’S CONCERT

The annual concert by the pupils of St. Mary’s Convent' will take place in the Town Hall this evening and the versatile programme to be submitted should attract a large audience. The items include instrumental selections, vocal, elocutionary and playettes. This year’s concert touches the standard of merit set in the past and affords parents and the public an opportunity ’ to mark the progress made by the pupils in the various sections during the year.

JOY NIGHT—NEXT TUESDAY. The Town Hall should be filled with a happy crowd on Tuesday evening next, when the Returned Soldiers’ Committee will provide an entertainment in which every one can participate. The proceeds are in aid of the Mayor’s fund to provide Christmas gifts for the children of the town and district. . “THE MAN UPSTAIRS.”

Monte Blue, Dorothy Devore, amd Heinie Con Min, play the leading roles in Friday’s feature picture in the Town Hail, “The Man Upstairs.” It is described as the talc of a romance that even London fogs could not dampen —that, budded in the “agony” or personal column of a newspaper, that blossomed in the fictitious thrills and bloomed amid prison walls and the stigma of murder. It is the story of a mischievous prank that almost ended in disaster. With supporting films at usual prices. The alluring tropical courftry of the Tahiti is the locale of Saturday’s feature film “Never the Twain Shall Meet,” adapted from Peter B. Kyne’s book. Anita Stewart, Bret Lyttell and Huntly Gordon play leading roles in this picture of adventure and excitement. As an added attraction the vaudeville act of tChun Yuen Tai will be presented. .‘[This is a first-class turn of Chinese conjuring and amazing double handed cartooning. This monster evening’s entertainment is to be offered at usual prices. The great spy drama from Blasco Ibanez’ book “Mare Nostrum,” will be screened on Monday next.