ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 June 1924, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

.OPERA HOUSE -TO-NIGHT. AIARY PICK CORD in “ROSITA.” A\ hen “Rosita” is shown for the first tune at the Opera House this evening, the public ui this town will see an entirely new and a different Alary i lekford she appeal's as a- grown-up young woman. 'l4m famous Marv Bickford curls, of golden hue, are ’coiffed high in Spanish style of the nineteenth century, while Aliss Bickford reveals a seldom seen phase of the personality loved the world around. '‘Rosita” is an onfnely diheront story from auvtliing Alary Bickford ever before has been identified with. Its appeal will bo to the grown-ups rather than to the children, and an entirely new Mary 1 icklqi'd audience will be created. A thriiiing tale o| Spanish romance is unfolded in swiftly moving scenes; glimpses of carnival and palatial splendor blended into a slorv of dramatic intensity interspersed with human frailties, comedy, intrigue, suspense and mounted on a production of gigantic proportions, abounding in melodrama and love. As Rosita, Alary Bickford appears in many scenes of dramatic intensity. Aliss Bickford has played many emotional scenes heretofore, therefore it will not in thi s sense be ne ' v Alary—just- a, grown-up Mary J lekford never fully revealed until the present. The box plan is' at Airs Cook’s Everybody's’ Sweet Store. the GRAND THEATRE-TO-NIGHT. "THE THIRD ALARM.” Hie Third Alarm ’ will be screened at the Grand Theatre for the first time to-night. The entire workings of a big city fire department from the time the first alarm is sounded until the big fire is completely extinguished, is graphically depicted in “The Third Alarm,” Emory .Johnson’s vital romance of ’ a hre-fighter’s life. The sounding of the alarm, the method of procedure when the signal is heard at headquarters of a hre company, picturing the awakening of men from slumber, their light-ning-like dressing and nlunge dowiAhe perpendicular rod, the hitchings of the horse s and mad dash out of "the fire-engine-house is realistically portrayed. The attaching of the fire hose—the hydrants and the running of the hose to where it plays on the flames with engines pumping, scaling ladders, ascending, axes swinging,"' and flames hissing, all is presented in breath-tak-ing reality in “The Third Alarm.” the supports include “Running Wild,” Mud to be one of the finest comedies shown here for a long time. There will be also the latest Bathe Gazette. HUAIBHREY BISHOP COMPANY”. , 'ihice appearing at Hawera some tnree months ago the famous Emdish Company has travelled extensively over toe Dominion. The company has been greeted v.iih crowded houses On I’hui'.sday, at the Opera'House, there is an entiielv new piogramme. Now duets by Kingsley and Jaffoy. new songs, new song secnas, new dance numbers, ilO'sJl Ul] nils lIT H'S I) V J?oss and Roberts, more of the doleful albeit irresistibly tunny stories and quaint songs by Edward Elliott, the topical .(ester, now rags etc., by the ragtime quartette. Added interest is sure to centre in the first appearance with the oonqamy „r the young New Zealander, -dn.-, ••• Ire Plupson („f Wellington) v iiu recently .punod the company, and uhi>iu Mr. Basil op ;s predictin' l- a hrdiiani fiiiure. Then there is in "addctaci Iho hrst apnea ranee in Hawera “i ’:'iiry 1 vuniin!o, nemo comedian, cud Grilse Wn\lo.. a brilliant .soorano!r.:h :m lists of high ; 1 1 : ißilly Toil!lon. me Wizard uf the drums, promise* i.nf fid fresh x\ hipbone s oEs. and the f 'T 1 *' ■’ • * ! • s <' t■i -! •; *-1 ra will keofj pace with ‘ :i 1 erd.-r ,4 mma a The hex " ; ' 1 ; ‘c f. . my. L.-L. 4. .'meet shop.