ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 August 1924, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. REGINALD DENNY TN “SPORTING YOUTH.” No production could have been more perfectly timed to public favour, more smoothly tuned to popular sentiment than “Sporting Youth,” Reginald Denny’s new Universal-Jewel racing feature, which opened last night at the Opera House, and will be shown again to-night. It lias life, colour, romance, danger and speed—plenty of speed, with the necessary punch of good acting to make Bryon Morgan’s story go over for all it is worth. The public has become inured to spectacles and costume plays as a result are no longer the supreme attraction. Filmdom lias reeked with heavy drama. All have had their fling at the public’s taste. Now that they have devoured them placidly, perhaps some were even relished, for there have been , some nrett.v entertaining pictures evolved of late, this picture of up to the minute life is welcome. But “Sporting Youth” is that which will not be placidly devoured. The public will “eat it up, ” if the public really wants good entertainment. Here’s a picture that keeps pace with to-day’s .speedcrazed desires. Everywhere you see it. Tt’s aa era of speed. You must keep moving or lie run down in the rush along life’s highways. The Hawera season closes to-night.

GRAND THEATRE—TO-NIGHT. “MORALS.” “Morals,” the latest Real Art offering of May Mc-Avoy, will be shown ina!ly at the Grand Theatre tonight. This picture, which was directed by William 1). Taylor, is a screen version adapted by Julia Crawford Tvers from tlie famous novel, “The Morals of Marcus Ordevnc,” by William J. Locke. Miss M.cAvoy has 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 t.o 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 Carlo! ta gives .Sir Marcus a very troubled time of it before he discovers that lie loves the delicious little nuisance. The supporting programme is excellent.