ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GRAND THEATRE. •AVHAT A WIFE LEARNED.” The old antagonism between the city and the open—between cultivation and primitive force, brings about a stirring conflict in “What a Wife Learned,” the Thomas H. Ince drama of /American life which opened at the Opera House last evening. There is a modern woman, passionately devoted to her husband, but athrill with desire for the career that the pubhcation of a successful novel brings. Her husband, virile Westerner, doesn’t understand why all her self-expression should not centre in him. There is another man, a playwright of the East. Not until the lives of the two men are imperilled in rushing flood waters does Sneila Russell solve her problem. ENGLISH FUTURISTS. To-night Hawera and district may be expected to be present in foroe at the Opera House to welcome the return of (and unfortunately to say, farewell, too) one of the rnost_ talented and likeab’e companies to visit the town —the English Futurists. He was a mast fastidious and ‘hard to please” person who was not delighted with both programmes previously presented by thus clever combination, and as this time patrons are promised an entire change of programme, thev should experienoa a rare treat. No changes have been made in the strong personnel since their last visit. To attempt, therefore, to extol on the merits of any individual artist, would be superfluous. Indeed, there are no acclaimed stare in the English Futurists’ ranks, each is seemingly and necessary part of a wonderful constellation', each performing his or her function to perfection, and the whole producing an entertainment it would he hard to excel. Brices are as before: ss. 3s and 2s.