ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 August 1924, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ODER A HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “Dark secrets.” Racked with thrilling incidents from start to finish, the various roles portiayed by thorough artists in their line, the direction superb, the phitographv highly artistic, “Dark Secrets,” a i. aramount picture directed hv Victor i-lenung, starring Dorothv Dalton, wdl be the attraction de luxe at the Opera House to-night and to-morrow (Thursday) at 2 and 8 o’clock. The story deals with tire nilful daughter of wealth,' parents, who falls in love with a British army officer, and who, through an accidental fall .from a hovse, becomes paralysed and is thrown into the hands of an Egyptian physician, which precipitates a struggle for her love and honour between the armv officer and the doctor. The picture lias :in exotic background, the ioeaie of the storv being divided between Cairo. Egvpt ‘ rich m Oriental colour, and Long Island, withi its fashionable homes of the rich' lhe supports include a .lolinnv Hines comedy, “Doggone Torchv.” -,i fave! Souc and the latest'' Paramount Gazette.

KMPBKXS PKTT-T'KS. MANAIA. TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT CHAPLIN IN THIO PILGRIM.'’ Iho Pilgrim ’ Ims arrived in the person of Charles Chaplin, the apostle Ot }o\. 1 his inimitable comedian dispenses fan and laughter. It is only necessary to know that lie plays the Part oi ;in escaped convict, who helps mm so 11 to a minister's clothes and found Irmsell the unwilling occupant : 'i p J l . ll i ,l 1 t - ro >’ the imagination to '•ipplv the humorous possibilities. “The .Iftmn ’ is a Master picture in lour itels, and is said to rival the «reat ■screen classic “The Kid.” There is I mu l n,,or of seats booked, and those wlm have not reserved are advKed to he early.