ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. REGINALD DENNY. Once in a while a picture comes along that stands in a class by itself. Such a picture is “Where Was I? ,J opening at the Opera House this even, ing for a two-night season. It presents Reginald Denny in the most screaming farce of the year. .Just one hour of the most ludicrous situations a good-looking bachelor ever had the hard luck to fall into, it has more thrills even than “Sporting Youth” or “Oh, Doctor!” The management present by special arrangement a most impressive film depicting the funeral of the late Queen Alexandra. The programme is a big entertainment for the young, the grown-ups, and the aged. THE GRAND TO-NIGHT. “CAMEO KIRBY.” When an enthusiastic public has placed its stamp of approval on a stage play, William Pox is pretty likely to study the production with an eye to its screen possibilities. His latest success in this sort of thing was with “Camea Kirby,” the romantic drama of Mississippi river gamblers by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. With John Gilbert in the title role and Gertrudei Olmsted playing the feminine lead, “Cameo Kirby” comes to the Grand Theatre this- evening. A full supporting programme will be presented. OPERA HOUSE. “QUO VADIS’’-^MONDAY. The motion picture spectacle of the wonderful drama of “Quo Vadis,” adapted from the world-famed romance of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel, opening at the Opera House on Monday next, tells a most thrilling, sensations 1 and dramatic story. The various scenes of pagan pomp to Christian simplicity make the picture story a most appealing one. Added to this is a most powerful love story, interwoven throughout—the love of a pagan for a 'Christian girl. Among the thrilling scenes is that of Ursus, in the arena at Rome, twisting a gigantic bull by the horns until its neck is broken. The hero, after killing the animal, releases a beautiful maiden—the Christian girl —who has been bound to the animal’s back, and begs the Roman audience to grant, her life. Por beauty, for perfection of detail, for d'amatic interest, religious and historical value, “Quo Vadis?” in all .probability has never been equalled, and at this time it will have a new and' intimate appeal. Perhaps no conflagration of its size and realism was ever before screened as that of the burning of Rome in this picture. While Nero, Roman tyram, strums his lyre upon the balcony of his luxurious palace, beneath him can be seen a vast city cloaked in smoke and fie, a roaring, blazing mass of failing buildings The box plans are now open at Mrs Cook’s