ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 9 February 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT.

“FIG LEAVES.”

GARDEN OF EDEN STORY. The first .release of the new season’s productions from the Fox Studios will commence here with the .screening of “Fig Leaves” at the Opera House, commencing to-night for a two-night season and a matinee. This film. i s a comedy-drama, commencing in the Garden of Eden and finishing up in the present nlay, reflecting the age- j d ciy of woman, “I’ve'notiling to wear.” The trouble all started on, the first honeymoon on record, when Five glanced over her last season’s array of fig leaves and decided they simply wouldn’t do another season. The serpent made things worse by coming in to .sympathise with her, after Adam had left of course, and thus .starting the discontent that was destined to be handed down from generation to generation. The modem sequences of the story contain some sequences in techni-colour, the most beautiful ever filmed, of a wonderful dress parade bv dozens of pretty mannequins. The important parts are played by George O’Brien and Ohve Borden, .supported bv Andre de Reramger. Eulalie Jensen, and Phyllis Haver. The supporting programme will include the final episode of the “Ace of Spades” serial. EMPRESS PICTURES, MANAT A. ToaroR.ROW night. Rudolph Valentino occupies an enviable and outstanding prominence on the screen. Hi.s is a vitality and charm of an elusive and exclusive sort. Youthful, graceful, subtle, polished, charming—all in a pronounced masculine way that appeals intimately to men and women —Valentino is a star whq has no near .rival in liis special romantic popularity. The fans of, Manaia are promised a greater treat than ever, when, in “The Son of the Sheik,” from the new E. M. Hull novel, Valentino comes to the Empress Theatre, as the dashing scion of the famed desert hero., “The Sheik,” ia role which he played five years ago to world-wide acclaim. How much better a sheik, a, young sheik can be, is to be demonstrated by Valentino in this sumptuously staged love and adventure drama of the Sahara. With him as “The Son of the Shiek’is” sweetheart, a dancing girl of a, wandering Frenchman's tent show, appears Vilma Banky—noted Hungarian beauty. OPERA, HOUSE. “IS ZAT SO?” “Is Zat So?” comes to Hawera on Friday night and the box plan is rapidly filling. Speaking of this, play, the Sydney Herald writes: The compan-ion-characters who head the cast in “Is Zat So?” are Chick Cowan and Hap Hurley, played by Richard Taber and Hale Norcross. ■" ‘ ‘How this precious pair,” comments the London- Times in reference to Chick and Hap, “get taken on as butler and footman in la New York household, ihow they woo two. damsels below stairs there, how they stage a boxing contest (a very good imitation of the real article), and how they succeed in unmasking the villian of the piece—all these things ryust be seen, for* it would be a pity to narrate them in tedious detail. “Nor does the plot matter save—:as what it obviously is—a mere vehicle for the humours of Ohick and Hap. We have not seen anything so queer—so droll—as this pair for a long time.” “Anyone who wants a new laugh, a new selection of tickling quips, a. new understanding of New York laccent—or, for the matter, a new vision of human nature—.will find! what he wants in “Is Zat So?”