ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 September 1924, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. ‘‘THE BROKEN WING.” ‘‘The Broken Wing” is full of thrills and laughs from start to finish. It will he shown at the Opera House to-night and to-morrow (Tuesday). An aeroplane flight, serves as the keynote of the plot, which takes an American aviator into Mexico. The subsequent crash, when the wing breaks and his pilot falls, furnishes a thrilling moment that few films have ever equalled. Our hero falls in the main room of a Mexican ranch hofise—a direct answer to the pretty little Latin maid’s' prayer for a white husband. Suffering no‘ ill effects from the accident beyond the total loss of his memory, the young American beats the local bandit by marrying her, only to return and find his wife, whose existence he had forgotten, waiting to take him home. A clever twist of the story brings about a satisfactory ending. The supporting programme includes an excellent Mermaid comedy, “High Power.”

EMPRESS PICTURES, MANAIA--TO-NIGHT.

THE FUN IN HUMAN NATURE.

It has been said that Harold Lloyd takes the simplicity of life, in natural surroundings, and with it makes superb comedy. It is proved in “Grandma’s ~°y- ibe picture concerns a boy who, though they are packed tightly away, has the qualities of a hero. He' has believed all through his youth that he

is a coward and has suffered accordingly at the hands of his associates. Even when it appears that, through his lack of nerve, he will lose his girl, he cannot rise to the occasion. Then Grandma takes a hand, works a miracle, and turns a milksop into a fire-eater. The cast, as usual, is excellent. Dainty Mildred Davis is charming, Anna Townsend as Grandma both appeals and delights, and the other players are of the same high artistic standard. When you have seen Grandma’s Boy” at the Empress theatre to-night you will know what lengthened its season into months at one of the world’s greatest theatres.