BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 367, 30 May 1928, Page 14

BRITANNIA

VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES “Flying Romeos,” a roaring aviation comedy, starring George Sidney and Charlie Murray, will be shown tonight at the Britannia Theatre. It is the story of a pair of barbers who decide to become aviators. They find they must take instruction from the man who is in love with the girl they both admire. Then they are mistaken for expert airmen and before they know it they are off for a transatlantic flight. Th© happenings when they leave the mainland and are on their way give rise to many situations, and the tempo and laughter are maintained to the final fade-out.

A particularly strong vaudeville programme will also be presented, including Th e Rewa Sisters, Maori singers and dancers, Kardo, with card tricks. The Three Rascals, Harry de Reeve, comedian, and The Olwyn Sisters, aero comedy act.

New Zealand schoolboys’ team to Australia during the present season. The committee recommended that the tour should be for a period of five weeks, including time of travel, and that it should include New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The team should consist of 18 players, a ud should be chosen from all associations under the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Association. The committee desired that the North Island and South Island Public Schools’ Football Associations be asked to nominate selectors, two from each island; one selector, to be chairman, to be selected by the New Zealand Council. If possible, the ages of the team should be fixed at 15 on June 30, 1928. The team should leave New Zealand about August 1. Entertainments should chiefly comprise visits to places of geographical, historical and industrial interest. A full night’s rest was essential after any train or boat travel before a match was played, and there should be no entertainment on the night preceding a match.

The committee estimated that the expenses of the tour, including assembling in Wellington, would be approximately £420, and recommended that each of the associations give £22 10s for each boy from its district, and the managers also pay £ls toward the fund. Pocket money should be limited to £ 5 for each boy. The report was unanimously adopted, and forwarded to the associations.