ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 July 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT

‘THE CHAMPION OF LOST CAUSES’

Edmund Low© scored strongly as Loving fn “The Champion of Lost Causes” last night at the Opera House. Those who saw this hair-raising story *or mystery were spellbound until the startling revelation was made that the master mind of a mysterious murder syndicate and a handsome young man of fashion are one and the same. The supports include Fox News, “Hell Roaring Range” (educational), and a rattling good Sunshine comedy entitled “The Butterfly Man.” THE GREAT MOSCOVITCH. The chief interest in the performance of Dorothy Brandon’s remarkable drama, “The Outsider,” to he staged under the J. C. Williamson management at the Opera House on Wednesday evening next will necessarily bo the first appearance in Hawera of the world-famous star actor Maurice Moscovitch, who comes fresh from triumphant seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, where the drama proved a. phenomenal success in both cities, and in'.Wellington and Christchurch recently it caused something of a sensation playing to enormuos audiences. The theme of the play is the attitude of the Royal College of Surgeons towards Anton Ragatzy, unqualified, yet of a natural genius, and' healing his patients of lameness while the qualified surgeons themselves fail. It is said that throughout the play Moscovitch grips the audience by his astonishing and magnetic personality. His performance of the title role ranks him among the •very greatest actors who have come to this country. It transcends mere cleverness and virtuosity, and rises to , the heights of genius, borne aloft by the tremendous force of personality and indefinable magnetism that makes the actor' at one with. th e audience. The box plan will open at Mrs. Cook’s Bweetsliop next Monday morning.