ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

GkANL THEATRE TO-NIGHT, i “DADDIES.’ Warner Bros.’ screen classic, “Daddies,” ..which opens a. two- nights btiasau ai the Hj-rand.'..- .'Theatre tonight,. .is - a comedy-drama full of laughs and tears. The story tells of tiio. experiences of four bachelors who adopt LaLies as a. means of paying their debt- to their country,. The myriad complications that -arise from the ifour, ’adoptions,•• one of which involves the assuming of the responsibility of triplets by a cynical bachelor, who- had heretofore enjoyed a life of ease and selfish .indulgence, is iound in John Hobble’s appealing story of “Daddies.” It is full of colour, comedy and drama. This is a Master Picture that appeal's to all ages and . classes. Mae Marsh has the starling pant-, and she is shpby Harry Myers, Claude - Gillmgwater, Claire Adams, Willard Louis, Oraufu-rl K©"t. Muriel Frauds- Dana. Priscilla Dean Moran, the De-Briac Twins and King Evers. OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. “DOROTHY VERNON OF IIADDON HALL.” Scenes of English beauty—of. for-, mid-able.- catstles, charming country landscapes— -of old JMigiish grandeur—gauy dressed -courtiers, and- silked und satined ladies—and the delightful romance or the beautiful mistress of Haddon Hall and the valiant aqd handsome John —son of Rutland. That is “Dorothy Vernon 'of Haddon Hall,” the screen masterpiece in which Mary Pickford, “the darling of the screen,'’ plays the title role, and, which opens a- season of two nights and one matinee at the Opera House to-night. .. It is an- English picture for English people. it takes us back to- the d-a-ys when knighthood was in flower—when the indomitable gallants continually risked their lives, if only to be but, a few sweet moments with the ladies of fheir hearts. It shows, us the man-like Queen Elizabeth, at her court, and the beautiful but doomed . Mary Queen of Scots, at Lochinvar, her escape, her entry into . England. VVe see the long, winding line of the courtiers and soldiers, .'travelling down with their Queen tram Loudon ito Derbyshire where the : Earl, of Rutland hold’, suay. , It shows a traitor’s attempt on ■ the life of one queen, as a means of putting another on the throne of England. It is Mistress Dorothy an.; her Jover who save their sovereign, and are pardoned for their misdeeds, and left to' fipcl happiness, l togethei' alter a romance that had been tinged with opposition, enmity, danger, ami adventure. Mary Pickford is a lovable character in the leading role, and is supported bv Clare Eames, Estelle T'nvbvr. Lottie Pickford Forrest. Allan Forrest. Anders Randolf, and Marc MacDerm-oit. A special matinee wiH be given to-morrowi (Tuesday) -at; 2 o’clock. The box nlan is row oner, at Mrs. Cook’s. Everybody’s Sweet Store, ’phone 639. Patrons ar-° advised to book early. No- extra charge for bookin° r .