ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 September 1924, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. ' “TOWNIES AND HAYSEEDS.” Beaumont Smith’s movie “Townies and Hayseeds,” 'has been booked for showing at the Opera House, commencing Wednesday next. The picturebreaks fresh ground, and is away from the beate'n track that lias become so familiar in' American pictures. The titles in it are said to be exceptionally w.tty. and many of the incidents are of a topical anture.” Picture-goers used to- laugh heartily at the absurdities hiiat are associated with the visits of country people to town. In this picture things are reversed,. and the fun is got out of the visit of the city family to the bush; One of the main scenes is a burlesque “suicide” at the O.i.p. When ibis scene was made at -i’s Bay, it created a sonsatioNearly everyone in the district made I .eir appearance, and laughed heartily •i the antics of Pa Townie and sundry other characters who had, unknown to the others, came up to the Gay.) on the same mission as Pa. The climax is an excellent one.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. “TIGER ROSE.’’ What- promises to. be a most entertaining programme commences at the O-o-era House to-night is “Tiger Rose.” Tiie storv of ‘‘Tircer Rose,” set in the far north-west, in the region where men and wilr beasts*rove at large, killing and being killed, impelled by instincts of hunger, love and fear, is one ci-o'k-full of the dramatic and soulstirring. As a result, the picture if said to move and tingle with liurnar interest. Rose Bocion, nickname: l “Tiger Rose” for her untamed ways, is a .regular wildcat, untutored ar.d unrestrained. Leaving home after he: father’s death, she is saved from death on a rnft avid brought to the factor oi a Hudson Bay- post, who decides to ad.ont and bring her up as his own child. In the post she learns to participate in the loves and hates of the men she is frown in contact with. “Winter Has Come,” a Christie corned v of outstanding merit, is also on the reegramme.