His Majesty's Theatre SUPREME ENTERTAINMENT. WELCOME RETURN OF THE FAMOUS SHAKESPEARIAN COMPANY With Beautiful New Productions, and Augmented by Talented English Artists. New to Auckland. ALLAN WILKIE WITH MISS HUNTER-WATTS. COMMENCING SATURDAY, MARCH 2. Commencing NEXT FRIDAY AT THE SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS THE PRIDE OF THE UNIVERSE. PROGRAMME FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF THE SEASON:— SATURDAY, MARCH 2. “THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.” MONDAY, MARCH 4. ‘THE MERCHANT OF VENICE’ TUESDAY, MARCH 5. “HAMLET.” WEDNESDAY (Matinee) MARCH 6. “AS YOU LIKE IT.” WEDNESDAY (Evening) MARCH 6 “TWELFTH NIGHT.” THURSDAY, MARCH 7. “CORIOLANUS.” (For the First Time in Auckland) FRIDAY, MARCH 8. “THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.” PRICES: R.S., 8s; D.C., 6s; Back Stalls, 4s; Gallery, 2s. Children in Parties of Ten or more, 4s, 3s, 2s, and 1s to all performances. SPECIAL MATINEE PRICES FOR ADULTS: ss, 4s, 2s 6d, and Is. All Prices Plus Tax. NATIONAL '■4*A4AAAAA.- r s tt . [ .. [ [ I 7 T I I | | y Vax** AINIAIGS BN AIM iST LUBITSCH - tie Patriot NATION PROSTRATE AT HIS FEET; . .1 a K«d no) ok person he could .11 “FRIEND”. Courtiers ourtessn* cavilled for his privileges. P, pel* This , ..lidhouw. This THE MIGHTIEST of all MOTION PICTURES.
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CITY OF AUCKLAND ZOOLOGICAL PARK Sunday Afternoon at 3 O’clock MARCH 2, 2-5 P.M. Auckland Municipal Band GOD SAVE THE KING. Overture, “Light Cavalry’* - - Suppe Hymn, “Sylvester” ..... Prout (Arrd. McLennan.) Minuetto, - Boccherini Morceau, "Humorseke" ... Dvorak Morceau Mignon, “Salut O'Amour" Elgar Cornet Duet, “Ida and Dot” - Losey Soloists, Messrs. J. Davies and T. R. Morgan. Selection, “Classica” .... Ewing INTERVAL. Overture. “Jubilant” ... - Galuska Waltz, “The Blue Danube” - Strauss Selection, “Reminiscences of Wales” Godfrey Oriental Phantasy, “In a Chinese Temple Garden” Ketelbey March, “The Woman Soldier” Bombic NATIONAL ANTHEM. J. S. BRIGHAM, Town Clerk GARDEN PARTY. AT MRS. G. H. WILSONS 3 UPLAND RD., REMUERA. For Y.W.C.A. Funds. Musical Programme. Cake, Produce, Sweet Stalls, ne and Bring Your Friends to Afternoon Tea. SWIMMING. AUCKLAND GIRLS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL. e Annual Swimming Sports will be hethe Shelly Beach Baths on FridwMarch Ist, at 1 p.m. Old Girls’ Race, 4 p.m. NANCY CARROLL AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL SWIMMING SPORTS A PROMISING SCREEN STAR Nancy Carroll is one of tlie youngest and most accomplished of the Paramount players. Nancy is only 22. she attended a high school in New York, ai ?d while there competed, together with her sister, in an amateur vaudeville competition. They won it A year later Miss Carroll obtained a place m the chorus of “The Passing fenow of 1923.” Then she decided to try motion pictures, failed to get anything but extra Parts and returned to the stage, obtained a small part in the musical comedy Nancy.” Her first big part was that of Roxy Hart in the stage production “Chicago.” Again Nancy Carroll tried motion pictures TEPID BATHS, MONDAY NEXT, AT 1 P M. OLD BOYS’ RACE (post entries) *' p.m. Parents and Friends Cordially Invited EVERYBODY’ r AND TIVOU ‘THE MAN WHO LAUGHS” but after playing u. herself once more out Fame came, however, when Anne Nichols selected her on sight for the part of Rosemary in “A b i e’s Iris h Rose.” Her second Paramount role was with Richard P>ix in “Easy Come, Ea»y Go,” and her third with Jack Holt ;ill p ; tCarre II < s " The Water Hole. nro/mLS arroll s lateKt pictures recently and d “mv, d £, re Manhattan Cocktails” tun- n he hop Wo ™ Angel.” She has m ™ ny s ? n °? fur sound sequences " Paramount Pictures, notably in Abies Irish Rose.” and she will appear m Paramount talking pictures exclusively. “The Man Who Laughs, a P>« based on the Victor Hugo storj. at the Tivoli and Everybody a ii and is still attracting crowded au enees. 1,..s create! Paul Lerii. the director W ‘ rf . what must be a well-nigh I - Ec? . production of eighteenth-cen - itf land. The Southwark fair, * aseething mobs, its sideshow• the trappings of the circus. I)UP pet royal court, with its human P«PP Q . | and stiff dignity. And the -\vestLords in session in the p 4 la^: t °ndarc* minster, with the Queen m a t re t* There are times when the P* ctU "Jrt comes almost gruesome m . n f sohorror of some of the terror® called “Merrie England,’ for tj> $ glimpses of a man being tortured the “Iron Lady.” Since completing her role in Irish Rose ” Nancy Carrol „ peared in -Manhattan Cocktain . Shop Worn Angel" and I' l ' peet Wall Street,” which has Jo 81
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 14
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