ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4413, 11 February 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

BEERY AND HATTON AT TOWN . HALL.

A city is steeped in crime and two underworld gangs engage in • madly warfare because one band has encroached upon the other’s territory. Wallace Beery and Raymond Jlatton are on the trail of the e-rooks! That is the situation in "Partners in Crime,” the Paramount melodramatic comedy, at the Town Hall on Wednesday night. They have sailed the seas, the inimitable Beery and Mutton. They have scaled the Alps, braved the terrors of the trenches, and made the world happier for fire 1 insurance writers, but they have never before been as funny as they are us the nemesis of the underworld. Eor the first time since they have been starred as team comedians, Beery and Hatton are provided in "Partners in Crime” with a straight melodramatic story. A story teeming in thrills, abounding in humorous situations and with an interesting love theme woven through it. Beery takes the part of a dud delee live and Ha (ton plays dual loles, those of a wise-cracking newspaper reporter, and of a savage gang leader. The stars do not clown or wear ludicrous costumes in Ibis picture. The story furnishes plenty of laughs through legitimate situations and Beery and Hatton make the most of the t-oinedv possibilities. With episode 2 of “The Trail of the Tiger:” “Look out Below," (comedy); and News. Usual prices.

WESTMINSTER. CL Eh SENDERS.

THE ACME OF VOCAL ART,

AT PONTON TO-'NICTTT

Charm, daintiness and tunefulness to extraordinarv degree mark the nlil 101 l e-songs and national meh'dirs of the Old Country, and they hold for the music lover of to-day a peculiar attraction that cannot be made to give wa v to-any other lona of music. For the Westminster (lice Singers only one concert has been allotted Foxton, which wjll lie given in the Town Hall tonight, commencing at S o’clock. With a repertoire of more than ISO selections the (lice Singers will jiresent in their programme some of tin* choicest of the Old (Cathedral School, interspersed with modern anthems, folk-songs, madrigals, glees, national airs, sailor shanties, 'ocal dances, humorous quartettes, song scenes, in addition to solos by moil and hoys. Of notable interest to a majority of people will he the singing of the hoy sopranos. There are six of them with the Westminster (lice Singers and they have been selected from some of England’s celebrated cathedral choirs. One of the crowning glories of British singing is that its boy sopranos have for centuries been unequalled. They are pre-emin-ent at the present lime, and with a widespread growth of the love of music in rci-cnt years, their wont has attracted enormous attention. It is probably not so much that other countries cannot produce hoy sopranos, hut that the centuries of training which the old Cathedral choirs have carried on has resulted in establishing a noteworthy tradition and in setting up a high standard. The recently completed tour of Canada was originally planned for four months, hut such was the enormous success .and popularity that it was extended to eighteen months, during which the biggest auditoriums of the Dominion were nightly tilled to capacity. The success of this organisation in New Zealand is unprecedented, 18 concerts were given in Auckland, 11 in Wellington, 10 in Christchurch and 14 in Dunedin, all to capacity houses. The box plan is at Heath’s.