AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3649, 9 December 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL. ..PICTURE NOTES. (By the Film Fiend.) After seeing Nature’s Gentleman at the Town Hall there is no disputing the fact that the Fankce will have to look to his laurels. Here we have an original plot, splendid acting, magnificent settings and something human and thoroughly enjoyable. The public should patronise the •theatre that shows' English productions to encourage the management to secure more of them. Nature’s Gentleman is on again to-night. Betty Compson, who made such a hit in the Miracle Man, will be seen here on Friday an dSaturday in The Devil’s Trail, a sensational picture of the exploits of the Canadian North West police amongst the dance halls aand sinks of inequity of the lowdess region. Alice .Joyce well be seen at the King’s on Saturday in the Song of the. Soul, Shannon Fife’s powerful story. It is said that Alice ' puts over her very best acting in this beautiful podnetion. Mrs Barbara Tenant, who was associated with the air force scandal which created such a sensation in England, appears personally in Nature’s Gentleman. \

Since her lamentable and tragic death Olive Thomasr productions are in great demand. ' Several will appear here shortly. Why do people get up and ruch the door before a picture ends? The trams for Utiku will always wait. Owing to its phenomenal run in other centres “The Song of the Soul ’ ’ can only be shown on Saturday.

\ COST OP LIVING. j COOKS AND STEWARDS APPLY j FOR BONUS. WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. An application by the Federatcc? Cooks and Stewards for bonus of £2 a month was heard in the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr Smith (on behalf of the Union Company) said the case was a test one. Whatever bonus was granted would have to be paid to other seagoing unions, involving £86,472 per annum. As far as the Union Company was concerned, if the bonus were granted, an increase of fares was inevitable. He asked the Court to refuse the bonus altogether. The industry was a special one, and it was never intended that thes bonus should apply. The majority of the men were single.

Mr Kennedy (on behalf of the Federation) said that, despite the increases granted to stewards, their earnings; worked out at 1/1 per hour only, while the galley staff earned lOd an hour.

The Court reserved its decision. JUDGMENT ON MONDAY. WELLINGTON, "This day. In the Arbitration Court it was announced to-day that judgment on the bonus issue would he given on Monday. In regard to the latest contention on behalf on the Unions, the Court could not agree to alter the basis which, rightly or wrongly had been decided upon in 1919. If the insisted on retaining" the basis, it must assume that the Statisticians' figures are correct.