ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 January 1925, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “FLOWING GOLD.” Absorbing romance, thrilling adventure, delightful humour. You will find them in generous measure in “Flowing Gold,” a First National picture, produced by Richard 'Walton Tully, which is to be the feature at the Opera House to-night. The photoplay was adapted from the famous novel by Rex Beach, and it is enacted by a sterling cast of screen players. Milton Sills and Anna Q. Nilsson, whose popularity is unbounded, have the leading roles, aided by Alice Calhoun, Josephine Crowell, Charles Sellon, Bert Woodruff, Cissy Fitgezrald and John Roche. The direction was in the capable hands of Joe de Grasse. (“Flowing Gold” is going to give you the thrill of your lives, for it contains a series of hairraising incidents the like of which, you have never before witnessed on the screen. Chief of these is the burning of an oil well, set afire by a stroke of lightning. You will see the bolt strike the top of the derrick, igniting the gushing fluid; a sudden burst of flame which illuminates the entire neighbourhood; the bursting 1 of a dam, which carries the burning oil far and wide, the trapping of the hero and heroine on the top of a shack which is being carried- along by the surging waters-, and the overturning of the shack, plunging the couple into the sea of flames. Those are the high lights of a story such as only Rex Beach could i write. It is gripping entertainment from start to finish, and is the type of picture which carries an appeal to all. It is a dramatic masterpiece which it will be impossible to erase from the memory, and one that'all should see. The box plan is at Mrs Cook’s.

EMPRESS PICTURES, MANAIA. TO-MORROW (SATURDAY). ALL BLACKS V. DEVON AND “SNOWY BAKER” IN “THE EMPIRE BUILDERS.” “Snowy”, Baker, the famous lian athlete, who won the world’s applause by capturing the individual honours of the Olympic Games, the youthful amateur boxer who was one of the last opponents to face the champion Fitzsimmons, the holder of six world titles in as many different manly sports, known everywhere as an exponent of clean and strenuous living, will, be seen at the Empress Pictures, Manaia, fo-morrow, matinee and evening, in his latest American production, “The Empire Builders.” “The Empire Builders” tells a thrilling, dramatic, and humorous story of West Africa today. Baker, always one of the screen’s most gallant heroes, rides his famous horse, “Boomerang.” in inimitable style, performs some marvellous stunts, and ends by winning a fight with a heavier opponent. Romance, adventure and comedy—the eternal triangle of good entertainment—are pelasingly -rimbined in “The Empire Builders.” The supporting programme includes a Hal Roch comedy, “Heavy Seas.” two reels of hilarious mirth, and the latest- Pathe- News and Review. On the same programme the picture of the All Blacks v. Devon will be shown. “The Empire Builders” will he shown at Okaiawa. to-night, and Normanby on Wednesdav.