OLD TIME DANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 16

OLD TIME DANCE

GREY LYNN LABOUR PARTY The happy evening enjoyed by those who indulge in the old time dances will be repeated this evening at the O’Xeill Street Hall, Ponsonby. In this hall is held an Old Time Dance every Saturday evening under the auspices of the Grey Lynn Labour Party. Paltridge’s orchestra will play. Al last, the second Australian-made masterpiece of Australasian Films, has arrived in Xew Zealand. Those who have seen this attraction are very enthusiastic about it. Almost entirely taken in Fiji it provides a wonderful wealth of tropical splendour. A great cast includes Miss Edith Roberts, Edmund Burns, Walter Long—all from American studios—and practically the whole of the Australian cast of “For the Term of His Natural Life” was sent from Sydney to Fiji. The story is from Beatrice Grimshaw’s well-known South Seas tale, “Conn of the Coral Seas, and deals with beach-combers, missionaries, and all types of humanity.

With the advent of colour and sound to the motion picture field the actual presence of persons behind the footlights is becoming quite uncnecessary. Audiences will be able to see the artists as they appear in actual life and hear their voices as well. Paramount is now producing a picture completely in natural colours. It is to be Richard Dix’s starring production, entitled “Redskin.” The idea of colour is not new. but was only recently brought to perfection. The public is demanding that illusions must be nearer and nearer to reality. That is why sound and colour pictures have come to stay.