ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 June 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT

GLOAMING v. THE HAWK

To-night the management will screen for local patrons the classic struggle between Gloaming and The Hawk at Napier. An excellent result of the race has been secured. . Claire Windsor plays the lead m “Born Rich,” a First National picture showing also this evening. The story is laid in New York society circles, and shows what the idle rach, in its ambition to drain life of the .ast drop of pleasure, in the mad pursuit of new sensations will go to. The settings are magnificent, and the dressing superb. Others in the cast are Claire Windsor, Bert Lyttel, Cullon Landis, J. Barnev Sherry. Frank Morgan, Maude Turner Gordon and Jackie O.tt, the five-year-old boy swimming champion. These features are euppoifcetl by two comedies, Scenic and Topical Budget. A special programme for children is advertised for the matinee on Satuiday, the star feature being thenfavourite Hoot Gibson in “The Riding Kid from Powder River.”

OPERA HOUSE

NENT TUESDAY. LADY “KILTIES.'’ Somehow or other, whether one is a Scotchman or not, the sight and sound of a kilties’ hand stirs the martial blood within, one, land sets the feet moving. This ,st a to. of affairs' -is . the more accentuated when the “Kilties” happen to be ladies', a,s j® the- ease with the Australian Scottish Pipe Bland) at present on a. tour of the world and which is visiting Hawera on June 16 and 17. An extract from the- New Zealand Herald, Auckland, isaid 1 - “Many of the performers are hut young girls, yet they play their parts with the ease which comes of a sound knowledge of technique. The piping wa>s in every case greatly, appreciated, while the dancing and singing left little- to be desired.” ' After the, completion of the New Zealand tour it is the intention of the band to visit Suva, Honolulu, Canada, United States of America, Great Britain and France, returning home to Australia via South Africa, Their opening programme in Hawera ii- being looked forward to with a great deal of expectancy, while the band’s- fellow countrymen are making every effort to- make the visit of the -lassies a, memorable one. The- box plans open at Mrs. Cook’s to-morrow (Saturday) morning.