ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 June 1924, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “THE GLORIOUS FOOL.” “The Glorious Fool” programme will be shown again to-night for the last time. Romance and comedy lurk in all sorts of unexpected places. One of the charnivj of the screen writings of Mary Roberts Rinehart is that she finds romance and comedy that are usually concealed from other wrileis, and builds a fresh, amusing story out of it. Her latest Master picture, featuring Helene Chadwick and Richard Dix, “The Glorious Fool,” is the best thing she has done for the screen. Its action takes place in a hospital, where a reckless youth is taken in what is believed to lie a dying condition, and persuades the kind-hearted probationer into marrying him to cheat his relatives out of inheriting any of his money. But he does * not keep faith with her; lie recovers and' .Jam; " finds herself married to .stranger. What funny, romantic, and entirely liurium situations follow, you may learn by seeing this refreshing comedy-drama. The supporting programme is excellent and includes a Christie Comedy entitled. ‘‘The Hula Honeymoon,” an interesting scenic “.Tanan the Beautiful.”- and the latest Rathe Gazette. KAPONCA PICTURES. JOHN BARRYMORE IN “SHERLOCK HOLMES.” The Goldw.vn super-production, “Sherlock Holme's,” showing to-morrow night, is a picture of outstanding interest. Sherlock Holmes, the master detective of Conan Doyle’s famous story, is the best known character in modern fiction; and John Barrymore, in the nart, is the hero of a hundred dark adventures in London’s underworld, conducting his war to the dentil against 'Professor Morinrty, the aioh-criminal. Every care has been taken to make the picture worthy of the story, most of it being filmed in England and Switzerland.