THE SEA HAWK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10066, 3 August 1925, Page 2

THE SEA HAWK

OPERA HOUSE.

TO-NIGHT’S BIG PRODUCTION.

“The Sea Hawk” which drew record houses in all cities and throughout the Dominion will he shown at the Opera House to-night, when the three nights’ season commences. Stories of Hawkins and Drake, of the Spanish Main, and the pirates of the sixteenth century, have a wonderful attraction to the average boy, and even to the much older boy. Sahatini’s book picturised in the film story “The Sea Hawk” presents to the eye the dramatic and exciting incidents of a romantic ago when men were kniglited for brave and adventurous deeds of the buccaneer. Sir Olive Trovilian, one such gentleman, having resolved to quit the sea, retires to his stately mansion on the Cornish coast. His brother’s conduct sees him a prisoner on a pirate ship to he sold as a slave ti> the Moors of Africa, Fate wills therwise, and he becomes the notorious Moorish pirate Taler cl Bahr, feared by the seamen of all countries. 'llie play is replete with dramatic incidents. Sea fights between stately Spanish galleons, Moorish pirates; and British warships are vividly portrayed. So real is everything that appears on the screen that one quite forgets bis existence in the twentieth century. a.nd is completely carried away in the spirit of the play. Milton Sills makes an ideal Eliabetlian adventurer, and is equally successful as the Moorish pirate. Winsome little Enid Bennett is the charming Rosamund Godolphin, and Wallace Beery the typical old sea captain who never violated his conscience, because he hadn’t any. The remainder of the cast are all top-notchers. The box plan for each night is at Muir’s, where.early booking is advised.