ENTERTAINMENTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 531, 14 May 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

SKATING. Skaters are notified that owing to the Allan Wilkie Company appearing in the Premier Hall on Monday next, the skating will be held on Tuesday. LYCEUM PICTURES. A four square production entitled ''The Sielnt Witness," and starring Gertrude McCoy and Frank O'Connor, is the feature for screening at the Premier Hall to-morrow (Satuday) evening. The stage version of this great story is now delighting many audiences. You will be pleased with the picture. The development of the climax, and the manner; in which the author handles a situation in which mother, son and father figure, is deft to the last degree. It has the punch of Jack Dempsey, and holds you in suspense to the last minute. The supports are gazette and industrial THE ROTTERS. PU KEKOHE —MON DA Y N EXT. An interesting wager was recently settled in London in connection with the famous comedy, "The Rotters,'' which will be staged by the Allan Wilkie Company at Pukekohe on Monday night. A wager for £IOO a-side was made as to whether there were numerically nune genuine laughs in "The Rotters" than in another highly successful comedy appearing at the same time. London chartered accountants were engaged to tally the number of laughs at performances at the respective shows, and an easy win was accorded "The Rotters." This piece is from the pen of H. F. Maltby, the eminent playwright who, by the way. is an old theatljical comrade of Mr. Wilkie, they having toured together in their early days the stage. It was owing to theifoliltime friendship that Mi?. Maltby gave preference to Mr. Wilkje when offqfts were being received by the former for the Australian rights of both "The Rotters" and the demobilisation drama, "A Temporary Gentleman. ."

VrGOROUS AUSTRALIA. The open air and the open sky, the broad spaces and the vigour of Australian country Life form a fine setting for the display of athletic piowess such as was seen at the Premier Ilall on Tuesday night, when Snowy Baker, of pugilistic fame, figured in the leading role of "The Man From Kangaroo." The splendid, b.feathless feats of horsemanship, fisticuffs, swimming and diving that make the film alive with the virility of magnificent physical manhood, coupled with intelligence and very fair dramatic art, make a peculiarly powerful ap-1 peal; to the people of this Dominion, where free, untranielled existence is not unknown. If Australian condition permits of a sufficient variuty of outdoor life to provide good followers of the preser.it series doing the rounds here the movies from the other side of the Tasman Sea will have a permanent vogue. To many people these rugged bush dramas, centred by 'the undoubtedly fine athletes, of both sexes, come as a welcome' relief from the occasional mushy sentimentality (not sentiment) and iurid fireworks and nasty suggestiveness of Yankeeland. "The Man From Kangaroo" was a distinct success on Tuesday night, and was unmistakably appreciated by an audience which, unfortunately, the " 'flu" conditions caused to be a rather small gathering. But the enthusiasm ; was there just the same. The kanga,oo is the thing; if there are any ; more of him, trot them out. 1