Round the Shows

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 14

Round the Shows

BACKHAUS RETURNING SPECIAL CONCERTS Mr. E. J. Gravestock announce*tha: I he has arranged for Mr. Wilhelm Back- I ha us, tho famous pianist, to give * j return concert in the Auckland Tewr Hall on Thursday, August 28, prior : ! his departure' for Australia. I A special programme has been *r- i t ranged, which includes the follo-ri:- j

works: I^l Opus- 51. Xo. - ir I F Major" IB—. J thoven): A Caprieeio, On t 329 in G H*»r < Beethoven); *7l* llage Over tfe Lost Penny”; *Sonata. Opus I#* •• K Major" thoven); fro omelettes In F HaJoin E Major mann): "Mgfc:

Vision” (No. 4 in F Major). (SSmmann). Chopin group, including “Nocture tr C Minor,” four studies; “Opus 10. 10, in A Flat Major”; ‘ Opus 25, Ko. T in C Sharp Minor”; “No. 6, in G Star; Minor” (thirds); “Xo. 1 in A Fkt Major”; “Polonaise in A Flan Major “Prelude in C Sharp Minor” (Rachmaninoff); “Waldeserauschen” (Ust •Twelfth. Hungarian Rhapsodr (Liszt). Mr. Backhaus will also give a cor. cert at the Theatre Royal. Hamfitor., on Tuesday, August 26. The tamoos pianist is attracting enormous aa£iences throughout his tour in the SontL

I GREY LYNN CINEMA j “High Treason.” which will be shorn? | at the Grey Lynn Cinema again tit* evening, is interesting, not only because of the tense story, but also because the scene is laid 10 years h«>cfMany improvements in architect**politics, dress, music and indeed ever branch of life are depicted. A spfcsdid cast of London players 45 the stars. including Benita Hm* Jameson Thomas and Hamberaa Wright. _ a BRITANNIA, THREE LASTS Two fine talkies are being shova the Britannia Theatre. The fijst * “The Big Party,” a gay comedy of American youth, starring Dixie ***• Sue Carol and Walter CoUett. i The second attraction is Americano.” an exciting Western STD -- j starring Ken Maynard. ACTORS IN “THE DIVORCEF Oddly enough, all the principal , ers in ’ The Divorce.” a new Goldwyn-Mayer picture, are naPP** married. Xorma Shearer. the is known as one of filmdom’s baPP. wives. Then there are Chester Robert Montgomery. Tyler Conrad Xagel and Florence x3dn f not to overlook Robert Z. Leonard, director, also a contented member tho matrimonial fraternity. picturisation of the Ursula ‘ story, the players have roles aep _ the futility of single -standard » experiments.

“Reaching for the Moon i* th for of Irving Berlin’s first pictora United Artists. _