ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE— TO-NIGHT

“SPORTING YOUTH.”

Containing a thrilling motor car race ‘‘Sporting Youth,” which commences at the Opera House to-night, is one of the most exciting films that has come to ITawern for some time. In the course of the story a young chauffeur lias the misfortune to be taken for the owner nf a powerful car, and in succeeding events is required to take part in a road race. The winning of the race and the honour to be derived from it are not the only things that the chauffeur desires, for there is a beautiful girl in the running. The race itself is thrilling. All the incidents that make the sport dangerous and at the same time irresistibly fascinating are siiown, and at one stage the competitors attain a speed of something like 100 miles per hour. Naturally the young hero wins the race, and all'turns out, as it should do. Reginald Denny, who has attained the reputation of being Hollywood’s most (taring driver, infuses dash and realism into, the part of the chauffeur, and Laura la Plante makes an attractive lending lady. There is an abundance of pretty scenes, and the whole picture is excellent, There is a fine supporting programme, including a comedy and a gazette. A matinee will be given to-morrow at. 2 o’clock.

GRAND THEATRE—TO-NIGHT

“MORALS.”

“Morals,” the'latest Real Art offering of May McAvoy, opens at the Grand Theatre to-night, for a two-night season. This picture, which was directed by William D. Taylor, is a screen version adapted by Julia Crawford Ivers from the famous novel, “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyue,” bv William J. Locke. Miss McAvoy lias the role of an English girl reared in a Turkish harem, and then suddenly transplanted to England when she is eighteen. Here, the girl’s childish eagerness to know what kind of a husband her guardian means to give her to distresses him almost as much as do her artlessly rude questions about the age and other intimate details of the lives of his women friends. All in all, the naive Carlotta gives Sir Marcus a very troubled time of it before he discovers that he loves the delicious little nuisance. The supporting programme is excellent.