ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 July 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE

“THIS FREEDOM.’

To-night’s big attraction is the picture everyone has been waiting ior, the British production ot A ; to. ALHutchinson’s famous novel this hieedony” with Fay Compton and Clive Brook as the featured players. On the s-une programme is an excellent comedy, cartoon, and the latest interesting EngHsh gazette.

THE (J RBA'l 1 MOBCOVITOH

To-morrow evening at the Opeia House, Maurice. Masco v itch, the celebrated Anglo-Ttussiian actor, will apncar in Hawera, under the direction, of J C Williamson Ltd., in ‘‘The Outsider,” one of the most discussed dramas of recent years. Iliis uniciue nlay was *sonie\vlia.t misunderstood m Sydney and Melbourne, where a number of the medical profession took exception to it as advocating or ac vGI ' • Written by a crippled girl, who on the night of the play s first introduction to London audiences, s tape red on to the .stage on crutches the theme centres around a beautiful cripple girl, and a bone-setter who effects a cine for the girl when all London s most famous doctors have failed, m * r>lav that must .succeed in spite ot the prejudices it creates concerning the medical profession, said the critic of the Sydney Sunday Times It must •succeed if only because of the exact technicality, the superb artistry the powerful and compelling personality ot ’the central figure, Maurice Moscovncli. The thenio is delicate, but it is handled with the skill of the master who knows the mind of the dramatist whose im~ pression he is creating- Placed in hie hands of a. less competent actor, Anton Ragatzv” would become at once rep ell ant and facetious.” Miss Jean 'Robenston, as the crippled genius and daughter of a great surgeon, as said fto give tan excellent impelisonation ot .a, very difficult character. The box plan is now on view at Mrs. Cook s isweet shop, next to theatre.