MILITARY FUNERAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1059, 25 August 1930, Page 11

MILITARY FUNERAL

LIEUTENANT J. SILUTOE Members of the Legion of Frontiersmen and of the Ponsonby Lodge of Druids were present at the military funeral of the late Lieutenant J. Sillitoe, M.C.. M.M., at the soldiers’ cemetery, Waikumete. on Saturday afternoon. The cortege moved off from Bollard Avenue, Avondale, the coffin being carried for a portion of the distance on a gun-carriage. Members of the Legion acted as pall-bearers and the graveside service was conducted by the Rev. H. K. Vickery, while the Druids' service was read by the archDruid. Three volleys were fired by the firing party, the “Last Post” and “Reveille” were sounded and the frontiersmen marched past and saluted the grave. Lieutenant Sillitoe served in the Great War. winning the Military Cross and Military Medal, and later served in the New Zealand Territorial Forces as a lieutenant in a Wellington Regiment. He came to Auckland about a year ago. He is survived by his wife and one child.

THE MOST SPECTACULAR MUSICAL, ALL-TALKING, SINGING AND TECHNICOLOUR SHOW EVER PRODUCED. LOCAL CROWDS AWAIT OPENING OF COMEDY HIT WHEELER AND WOOLSEY ARE STARRED IN FILM FUN FEAST THOS. A. O’BRIENS GREAT TREAT FOR AUCKLAND PUBLIC

Filled with delirious fun and hilarious nonsense, “The Cuckoos.” Radio Pictures’ wild riot of waggery, opens on Thursday next, August 2S, at the Civic*' Theatre. The show brings the. talking screen something entirely new in entertainment.

“The Cuckoos” is not a revue. It’s not a musical comedy, although comedy and music hold full sway through the production. The show is a distinct departure from the conventional, offering a well-knit story which serves as a background for the antics of the maddest pair of comics ever to grace the screen—Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, who won picture fame in “Rio Rita.”

Romance has not been neglected, and a tender love strain is carried by June Clyde and Hugh Trevor. Wheeler and Woolsey are capably aided in their lunacy by Dorothy Lee and Jobyna Howland. Ivan Lebcdeff and Mitchell Lewis are the “bad men” and Marguerita Padula lends her glorious voice to a number of song hits.

Filmed partly in technicolour, offering 10 lilting hit songs, numbering more than a thousand in its cast and containing the liveliest set of chorus presentations ever brought to the screen, “The Cuckoos” is said to have everything that makes for perfect screen entertainment.

Judging by its record-breaking reception in other cities, “The Cuckoos” is expected to attract capacity audiences during its showing here. Thursday next, only at the Civic.—J