ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 April 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. WISH WYNNE AND “HOOT” GIBSON. Hawera is lucky to have the opportunity to hear Wish Wynne, and it is a privilege which ought not to be missed. She is not like anyone else, nor has she had a predecessor. Wish Wynne has created her own characters of the theatre with much the same inimitable genius that Phil May displayed with the pencil. The delineation in each instance is incomparably distinctive. The pictures are drawn with sure convincing touches, with marvellous fidelity to type and amazing deftness. Wish Wynne has first understood and then revealed. That is why she is so human, so eloquently real. Her impersonations live on the stage, they have eyes and head and hands and feet —and soul; they cry, they laugh. The little people she portrays —the rebellious servant, the unhappy schoolgirl, the shy country lass, appear to lose the idea of mere portrayals and to become piquant and pitiful realities. The Hawera season closes when “Hoot Gibson” will be, seen in “The Calgary Stampede.”

OPERA HOUSE. “THE WHITE SISTER.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first New Zealand' release—the Henry King production of “The White Sister,” starring Lilian Gish, which commences on Monday, stands as one of the truly great motion pictures. It is a perfect visualisation of F. Marion Crawford’s widely read novel, told in all its dramatic intensity and filmed in Italy against the beautiful backgrounds described in the original Miss Gish rises to heights in the remarkable photo-drama. Her portrayal of Angela places her in a class by herself, the one, real, thrilling genius of the screen. The actual eruption of Mt. Vesuvius- is shown. Molten lava flowing down the side of the mountain is pictured with the mouth of the crater belching forth its deadly fumes and fire. On top of this comes a flood with an entire town being wiped out. The success of “The White Sister” at the Majestic Theatre, Auckland, at the De Luxe Theatre, Wellington, at the Liberty Theatre, Christchurch, and wherever shown, has been so great that all previous records were broken. Special music, under the baton of Mr. Matthew Newberry, and a prologue accompanies this production in Hawera. Box'plan opened to-day at Mrs. Cook’s. GRAND THEATRE, TO-NIGHT. “THE FAIR CHEAT.” Have you ever been the centre of a plot? If not, you should surely see Wilfred Lytell, who is the centre of the plot- in “The Fair Cheat,” to be shown at the Grand Theatre to-night. While Lytell is the centre of the plot, he is not the whole centre of the story. The plotters, Dorothy Mackaill and Edmund Breeso, take their share of the picture. The story concerns a beautiful girl, daughter of a. millionaire and her wedding to a penniless young man. They plot to prove him true, but all their plots threaten to niisearry through some unforeseen happenings. The girl gets herself mixed up in a near scandal with a Broadway troupe and an ambitious press agent, while the young man thoroughly involves himself with the police in an attempt to prevent his future father-in-law from being robbed. The story is exceptional, because you cannot guess the ending-. The east is exception a] because of the care in their selection The direction is exceptionally good because Burton King did it.