ENTERTAINMENTS.

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

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “PONJOLA.” A refined girl, a victim of circumstances, decides that the world is not tor women, but for men onlv. Masquerading as a man she seeks to hide herself m Africa, where she is thiown into the maelstrom of excitement, adventure, and—romance This briefly is the theme of “Poiijola ” showing at the Opera House to-night. It tells the story of an En<>--lish noblewoman, who is disquised as a man, fights the curse of “Ponjola ” the soul-destroying drink of the cmld miners; fights for the man she loves, l- nd 'momgiy offers to sacrifice herself tor the man by standing trial for a murder which the man commits. In the ro e of “Desmond” the girl, Anna Q. Nilsson, will be seen in a part which critics declare is the greatest role ot her whole stage or screen career. , James Kirkwood enacts the part of the man. The supporting programme includes another of the slow motion golf studies, two one-reel comedies, “Wrecks” and “The Very i>ad Alan, an interesting tr.aveknme’ •‘Little High Horse,” and the hitest international News. GRA X J 1 TITE ATR E—T 0-X T G TIT. “THE NIGHT MESSAGE.” I nique in flic field of motion picfuies in methods of production, in s [ a b v > a ! ul 111 system of presentation. “The XTght Message,” perhaps one of the most talked-of pictures in screendoni to-da.v, comes to the Grand Theatre to-night. it is one of the sweetest love stories ever tobl—and told against a background of mountain feudists, hot bate and sombre tragedy, the climax, where the central figure of the strange drama gives his life, as electricity is sent through his bode, to cany the message that clears an innocent man, is as dramatic as it is unusual. It is produced on a spectacular basis. The supports include Die ninth episode of “The Phantom Portuno.” “Aliles of Smiles” (a Centurv Comedy), and the latest Topical Budget.