ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. PICTURES AND VAUDEVILLE. The two popular favourites of “Digger” fame, Stan Lawson and Joe Valli, opened a two-night season at the Opera House last evening, and met witli a splendid reception. Then sparkling pot-pourri of burlesque nonsense and dacing met with popular approval, ami they had to bow their acknowledgement again and again. Mi Lawson appears in a beautiful clonk of lemon satin and gorgeous blue sequin dress, and later with his partner in full highland costume. They make their final appearance to-night. Altogether the two acts are worth going a long way to see. The star picture, “The World’s a Stage,” written by Elinor Glyn, is very effective in its human appeal, and is one of the best pictures of the season. Dorothy Phillips’ emotional talent is given worthy expression in this study of the triangle. It- is a storv very close to reality, well directed and maintaining the interest throughout. The season concludes tonight. GRAND THEATRE TO-NIGHT. “THE GALLOP TNG ACE.” Jack Hoxie. and his famous white saddle horse “Seout” gallop through one of the fastest action western pictures of the season in the latest Universal production in which the big cowboy is starred, “The Galloping Ace,” playing-at the Grand Theatre to-night. It is of distinct novelty in that it offers besides more than an or-’ dinary allotment of the daring horsemanship and thrilling rides that make up a high class western picture, a prairie battle that rivals a war scene from Flanders. The climax to a dispute over a marble quarry in a ‘‘dynamite” war that eclipses the thrilling battle staged during the filming of “The Red Warning.” The cast includes Margaret Morris, a recent Universal “discovery,” who plays the romantic lead opposite the star; Robert McKim, famous screen “villain,” Frank Rice, Dorothea Wolbert, Julia Brown and Fred Humes. The tenth episode of the “Eagle’s Talons” is in■*cluded in the supporting programme.