The Show's The Thing

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 17

The Show's The Thing

THE only motion pictures of the rescue of survivors from the "Vestris," the ill-fated British liner which sank recently with an appalling loss of life, are claimed to have been secured by the Paramount organisation They are* incorporated m a special edition of Paramount News-, which will be released m New Zealand at an early date. The pictures, taken from the s.s. "Berlin," one of the rescue ships, show survivors floating m the rough seas, and clinging desperately to wreckage, also the arrival of the first lifeboat, crammed with passengers, at the side of the "Berlin," and of other boats cruising about m search of further survivors.

"THE VAGABOND KING," a spectacular and beautiful musical play, and one of. the latest J. C. Williamson successes, is now m New Zealand, and opened m Auckland on Tuesday, February 12. "The Vagabond King" is quite outside the usual class of musical play. It has tragedy as well as pathos and humor m its composition," and interpreted by a splendid J. C. Williamson company, at the. head of which are James Liddy and Strella Wilson, it is sure to be one of the outstanding successes of the year m New Zealand.

WITHOUT any doubt at all, Allan Wilkie's New Zealand toutshould be quite as successful as any previously undertaken. During <the Wellington season, which conclude on Saturday night, two plays m "All's Well That Ends Well" and "King Lear" were produced for the first time and drew large audiences. The educational value of the tour, too, has been appreciated b y the young people of Wellington, and nightly hundreds availed themselves of the special student rates. Among the members of Allan Wilkie's Shakespearean company, which i's at present on a tour of New Zealand is Hilda Scurr, o f Dunedin. "Miss Scurr had a particularly successful time at the Christchurch competitions last year as an elocutionist, and she was highly spoken, of by the. judge, Culford Bell, of Auckland.