ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 March 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“RED RIDER.” “The Red Rider,” Universal-Blue j Streak Western, starring Jack Hoxie, ; coming to the Opera House on Saturday, tells of the reforms worked among the Indians of this country by a mysterious “white Indian,” whose real name is White Elk, but whom the Indians call “The White Manitou.’’ This is the character played by Hoxie, and ] it is said to be one of the most im- , posing and impressive screen work that j this famous impersonator of Western characters has ever done. > _ The picture is unique in that it is the first time that an attempt has ever been made to place on the screen the Indian’s side of the story of the conflict between red and white races in America. It tells of the inroads of the white race, of the operations of unscrupulous “.palefaces” in robbing the Indian of his lands. ‘The White Manitou is really a white man adopted bv an Indian woman when _he was a baby and .following the killing of his mother by Indians. “THE LOVE PIRATE.” Carmel Myers, according to reports from other cities, has added one more remarkable characterisation to the many already to her credit as a caJbaret performer in “The Love Pirate,” a Richard Thomas Production released by F. 8.0., to be shown at the Grand Theatre to-night. In the earlier soenes she portrays, admirably, it is said, the happy, caredfree ■sophistication 'of Ja gild of this type, while later, when jealousy comes into her life, she invests the part with deftly conceived touches that carry her from the thought of love and happiness to hatred and revenge. The supports to this picture are excellent. ONLY ONE NIGHT. OPERA HOUSE. PAT HANNA’S DIGGERS. Next Tuesday, 16th inst., for one night only, at 8 sharp of the clock, the curtain will rise on the finest all-round combination that has ever been presented here. On their trip over from Melbourne the firemen on the Manuka delayed the boat for four days. We don’t wonder now. How could anybody let them go? They are the only company specially selected and brought from Australia toplay a season at the Grand Festival Hall at the Dunedin Exhibition, and it speaks volumes for their success when they have to go back in March. They attacked, captured and made willing prisoner? of their audiences in Dunedin, and they have held them ever since by brightening their existence and treating them to a feast of sparkling song, dance, melody, mirth, sketch, burlesque and in fact everything that goes to make the perfect night’s entertainment of which, they are the past masters'. Joe Valli, G .P. Hanna, Bert Gilbert. Stan Lawson. Brian Lawrence, Jim Foran, Jock Thomson, Chris. Kilner, Frank McDonald, Roy Brindsen, Wallace Lloyd, Iza Crossley, Jessie. Hanna, Vera Carew, Rosette Powell, Thelma Pittard, ■ Wynne Thomson, Kathleen Lawrence, Olive Butler. Gwen Webster, Myra Webster, Vera Rix, with the Diggers’ superb ballet and a full concert orchestra, make the finest costume comedy south of the line, and their Australasian record season, of 488 nights consecutively in Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane, enhances the popularity which this distinguished band of entertainers has achieved. Pat Hanna’s Vice-Regal Diggers are with us for a short season only, and good advice is. don’t miss this show of a thousand laughs. Go and book at Mrs Cook’s. Pn'oes are: 6s, 4s and 2s, plus tax, for “the laughter show of a century.”