ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 April 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. FOR YEARS, THE SILENT DRAMA. NOW—THE SPEAKING FILM. LOOK BACK—AND THEN LOOK FORWARD I It has taken, a good many years for moving pictures to be lifted out of theii early experimental stage and developed into the wonderfully organised and exact science that to-day gives us unlimited variety of perfect productions. Compare to-day's lavish, enormously intricate, and expensive films with those.of a decade ago!

Look and listen to Dr. De Forest’s PhonofUms at the Opera House on Monday evening, and, although they already approach perfection in this new wonderful field of the speaking picture, think for » moment or their vast future ! Visualise the endless possibilities opened up! Phonofilms mean that the world’s star players will in future be heard as well as seen. They mean that kings and presidents, statesmen, scientists, doctors, men of letters, vocalists, musicians, dancers, will be heard as well as seen in a thousand cities at the same time!

The faculty of speech has given man his supremacy in the world. Phonofilms, by giving living speech to the great “silent drama,” will lift it as far above its existing value as that is above its earlier level. The Phonofilm is an invention literally as notable and far-reaching in its possibilities as any invention known to science. The programme will include the seven-act special super “Daughter of To-day.” THE GRAND TO-NIGHT. "ON THIN ICE.” Here’s a mystery story with a new angle; a picturd of San Francisco’s underworld with a novel twist that makes it highly entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable. In other words, "On Thin Ice," the new Master Picture which opens at the Grand this evening, is a picture that should not be missed, because it is a clever mixture of adventure, mystery, rapid action and romance, not forgetting the unusual spectacle of seeing a gangster turn brother to a naive, unsophisticated girl in order to carry out his ends, which ends become utterly lost in his infatuation for her. The girl, on the other hand, finds her pseudo brother so satisfactory that she soon asks Ms blessing on her love for another, with the result that everybody misunderstands and is misunderstood.