ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 July 1924, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

♦ OPEPA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. “PADDY, THE NEXT PEST THING.” “Paddy, the Next Best Thing,” opens to-night at the Opera House. Irish in aspect, ■■ from her nose to her toes, Mae Marsh makes an ideal ‘ Paddy. ’ and G. A. Atkinson, of the London Express, dean of the English critics, wrote: “Never upon any screen has there been such a disniay of feminine airs and graces as ' Mae Marsh filings to the title role of ‘Paddy.’ Her charm is .simply irresistible.” baddy Adair, just the type ol Irish girlhood, healthy, vigorous, pretty and perl, that hoys want for playmates, youths for sweethearts, men for wives, fathers for daughters, and old men for grand-daughters. it is Mae Marsh’s greatest characterisation; her highest attainment of artistry. The first troubde in Paddy’s joyous life came through her own sister’s iove affair. Paddy led by the ea<r the vouth who loved Eileen and told him how to propose; hut he was rejected, because of Eileen’s feeling toward a icuth. Paddy thought a philanderer. And then troubles multiplied with startling rapidity; the course of true love ran exceedingly rough. Let Mae Marsh tell the iest; let this fascinatingly mischievous screen favourite show >cu in her portrayal of Paddy one of the jolliest and most charming characters tljat the screen has ever ielfin:ted.

GPAXD THEATR.E—TO-NIG HT. ‘•MY AMERICAN WIFE.” “Mv American Wife,” Gloria. Swanson’s latest Pai-amount star picture, produced hv Sam Wood, in which Antonio Moreno makes his Paramount debut as leading man, will he the feature at the Grand Theatre to-night and to-morrow evening. The scenes are laid in Argentina and the story deals with a young Kentucky girl, owner of a racing stable, who becomes enmeshed in politics and love, with iijghly dramatic results. The picture is filled with rapid fire action and is wholly engrossing.