ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT

HERE’S PICTURE-LIKE JOURNEY TO PARIS.

If you can’t go to Paris the nearest, you can approach it is to go to- the Opera House, where “A Man’s Mate” opens this evening. . The Eox star, John Gilbert, gives a jileasihg screen performance in a picture that holds the attention of the audience throughout. He is ably supported by Renee Adoree. . Gilbert has the part of an artist who meets an Apache girl in a Paris drinking place. * Circumstances take them to a quiet farmhouse in the peaceful countryside. With the girl as a model the artist does a canvas that is later hailed as a masterpiece. Then love sweeps these two rapturously along. There is a rift in the lute, however. But to tell the story here would detract from its romantic" thrilk when you view it on the Opera House screen. If you like red-blooded' love stories, teeming with action, “A Man’s Mate” will give you a satisfactory evening’s entertainment. The supports include Clyde Cook in “The Orphan” and Pox News. This programme will be transferred to the Grand to-morrow evening. ' Patrons are reminded that the tax on tickets up to 2s is no longer in force.

EMPRESS PICTURES, NORMANBY.

TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT.

A new Paramount picture, “To the Ladies.” James Cruze and Paramount. Again comes this unbeatable combination to the fore,, this time with the production of “To the Ladies,” which will be presented at. the Empress Pictures, Normanby, to-night. Edward Horton, . Theodore Roberts, Helen Jerome Eddy and Louise Dresser, the featured players, are supported by Z. Wall Covington, Arthur Hoyt, Jack Gardiner, and a host of Other prominent screen artists. “To the Ladies” is an adaptation by Walter Woods of the Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman stage play of the same title, which had such a sensational run in New York City. By comparison it is a far superior work, and : the more we think of “To the Ladies” as a James Cruze production, the more we are convinced, that, when it copies to motion pictures, at least, we have to hand it “to the men.” Also showing “Hurricane Hutch.” Prices V- and 1/6. No tax. '