AMUSEMENTS INDEX

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS INDEX

His Majesty’s. —Percy Hutchison in “The Luck of the Navy.” St. James Theatre. —The Fuller-Gon-salez Grand Opera Company in “Un Ballo in Maschera.” PICTURE THEATRES Lyric. —“ The Play Girl” (Madge Bellamy) and “Blighty” (Ellaline Terriss). Strand. —“Sunrise” (Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien). New Regent. —“ Easy Come, Easy Go” (Richard Dix), also Tom Katz and his Saxophone Band. Majestic. —“ The Gateway of the Moon” (Dolores Del Rio) and Fred Mayfield’s Cowboy Band. Plaza.—“ Finders Keepers” (Laura la Plante) and “Impetuous Youth” (Conrad Veidt). Prince Edward.— “My Best Girl” and “Soft Living.” Grand.—“ The Patsy” and “The Gauclio.”

Everybody’s.—“Tlie Good-bye Kiss” and “The Little Adventuress” (Vera Reynolds). Tudor, Remuera. —“A Bush Cinderella.” Tivoli.—“Finders Keepers” (Laura La Plante) and “Impetuous Youth” (Conrad Veidt). Rialto, Newmarket. —“Bardelys the Magnificent” and vaudeville. Britannia. —“13 Washington Square” and “Somehow Good.” Capitol.—“ Red Hair” and “Come to My House.” Empire.—“On Your Toes” and “The Yellow Lily.” Regent, Epsom.—“Bardelys the Magnificent” and vaudeville. Edendale.—“Red Hair” and “Body and Soul.” Royal, Kingsland. “Flight Commander” and “The Pioneer Scout.” Adelphi, Grey Lynn.—“ The Hawk's. Nest” and “Honour Bound.” Hippodrome.—“ Wild West Romance.”

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN.” EXCELLENT MOTIVES Thefts from penny-in-the-slot telephones have been frequent in Auckland suburban districts lately. Persons in the habit of inserting metal disks or false coins in these machines now assert that they do it to fool the thieves. NOTHING DUTIABLE The official entry in the book of the Customs Department in Christchurch relating to the trans-Tasman flight reads as follows: Arrived—Southern Cross, airplane, from Sydney. Passengers; C. Kingsford Smith and C. T. P. Ulin, co-commanders; H. A. Litchfield, navigator; T. H. McWilliam, radio operator. Nothing dutiable. Evidently the spirit of Australia, of which Smith and dm both possess liberal quantities, escaped the notice of the officers. * * * UPWARD We note with interest that a skyscraper church is being built in one of the Atlantic Coast cities of America. Whatever we may think of that style of church we cannot deny that it is a move in the right direction. * # * THE LAST WORD! A speaker at the meeting of the Papatoetoe Ratepayers’ Welfare League last evening received a rude rebuff. He was criticising the town board for purchasing fire-fighting appliances without first obtaining the sanction of the ratepayers. His remarks were interrupted by the sound of the fire brigade’s siren as the engine sped to a fire. Any further comment by the speaker was considered unnecessary by those whose money it was alleged had been squandered. * * * APPROPRIATE At a wedding he attended last week the L.O.M. counted no fewer than eight silver butter dishes among the gifts—nine after he had presented his own offering. “Ah, well, for butter or worse,” he said tactfully to the bride’s mother. TALKING OF BEES A swarm of bees which left a Surrey cottage 12 months previously has returned to the hive, announced a morning paper. “This,” said the Professor, “is an important event in natural history. It illustrates the immense force of the home-loving instinct ” “How did they know they were the same bees?” asked Bell. “I suspect that the keeper knew them personally,” explained the Professor, “or perhaps he adopted a strategy which I myself have used in Australia. When I have been hungry in the bush I have tied a cigarette paper to a wild bee’s wing and then followed it to the honey store. No doubt the Surrey apiarist had his bees marked in this fashion.”

KIT MARLOWE All who admire handsome memorials will be glad to know that the Marlowe memorial at Canterbury is' to be completed at last. The original work was dedicated by Sir Henry Irving, and gradually has been completed, all but four statuettes. When these are set up in place, which is to be soon, with a figure of Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson as Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, the memorial will form a happy complement to that at Deptford. In the meantime, Dr. S. A. Tannenbaum has vindicated Marlowe in discovering the truth of the poet’s death. We know now that Kit was the victim of a political conspiracy and died by planned assassination. BONES AND POTATOES The assertion of Dr. R. Larkin at a London inquest that the bones of the Irish mend better when broken than those of the English because of the large part the potato plays in the national diet recalls an audacious Irish hoax in which the potato’s virtues figured. One evening in 1830 Peter Finnerty, a well-known Irish journalist of the time, found himself alone in the Press Gallery at Westminster, and when his colleagues arrived he dictated to them a speech which he said had been delivered by William Wilberforce. Next morning, to the surprise of most readers (and to the amazement of Wilberforce himself), the London Press reported the champion of the negro as having declared: “Had it been my lot to be born in Ireland, where my food would have consisted principally of the potato, that most nutritious and salubrious root, instead of being the poor, infirm, shrivelled, stunted creature you now behold in me, I would have been a tall, stout, athletic man and able to carry an enormous weight.”