MAORI CONCERT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1007, 25 June 1930, Page 16

MAORI CONCERT

TOWN HALL ON SATURDAY

In the Town Hall next Saturday a grand Maori concert is to be given by the pupils of St. Stephen’s and Queen Victoria Colleges in aid ot tho college library and ground improvement fund. This may be the last opportunity of hearing the combined school choirs before the St. Stephen's boys move to the country. The concert is under the musical direction of Mr. Colin Muston, and a high standard of excellence is assured. Over 100 voices will demonstrate the Maori gift of harmony at its best. Hundreds had to be turned away from last year’s entertainment, so early booking is recommended.

EMPRESS

The British war-time comedy, "Splinters,” telling the story of the founding of the concert company which appeared at the “Bra Sat Theatre” behind the lines in Flanders, is at the Empress Theatre. Much of the humour is characteristically British and could only have been evolved among the conditions under which the “Splinters” revue was born. Notably humorous incidents are the scenes in which two drink-muddled Tommies discuss Lloyd George as they contemplate his portrait and in which two soldiers mistake the identity of the leading lady. The original personnel of the company takes part in the screen version, and includes the comedians, Hal Jones, Lew Luke, Sydney Howard and Nelson Keys, and the clever female impersonator, Reg. Stone. Bebe Daniels is the star of “Love Comes Along,” the second big attraction.

PRINCE EDWARD

A girl can never tell these days with whom she is falling in love. Imagine Evelyn Brent’s surprise when she discovers the true identity of the suave Englishman, Clive Brook, in Paramount’s “Slightly Scarlet.” And liesurprise is no more than that of the audience when they see this thrilling romance, sense its gripping drama ai tile Prince Edward Theatre. Evelyn Brent was never more allur ingly attractive, more gorgeously gowned than she is in "Slightly Scarlet.” Nor was the handsome Clive Brook more charmingly whimsical, even in “Charming Sinners," than in this strange melodrama of another charming sinner, who looks for high ideals and high station in her men friends and falls in love with—what ? A second big attraction is being shown in “Peacock Alleyn” a tale of fashions starring Mae Murray.