ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 April 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT

“POKER FACES” FINAL SCREENING.

“Poker Faces,” the starring attraction at the Opera House, has Laura La Plante in the leading role, and is a .snappy and very amusing comedy drama oi' what appears to be a cross between domestic life and city life, and it is, in this picture at any rate, a case of never the twain shall meet. The loving couple in the film play endeavour to make the two join, with disastrous and always hilarious results, which eventuate in the course of the picture, in much comedy, much romance, and quite a deal of thrilling encounters. A few boxing bouts occur during the story to give the action some encouragement, a wife or two gets lost and a husband borrows one casually for a few nights, and the entire farce sweeps along in a veritable tornado of uproariness mirth and delicious enjoyment. Edward Everett Horton appears in support of Miss La Plante, and genial George Siegeman plays a prominent supporting role. “Poker Faces” will be finally screened this evening.

OPERA HOUSE

COMMENCING TO-MORROW NIGHT “THE FLAMING FRONTIER.” "The Flaming Frontier,” an Edward Sedgwick-Universal production, commencing to-morrow evening at the Opera House with an all-star cast, is an historic picture of the making of the West that carries with it thrills' and a real heart interest that make of it a screen production long to be remembered. Cased on the Custer massacre it has for its background the winning of the West with the neverfailing appeal to the imagination that tiiis epoch carries, while through it runs as pretty and as gripping a Jove story as has ever been written. The story of “The Flaming Frontier” is set down in the days in and around 1870. Hardy settler® are still carving out the great Empire of the West with disgruntled Hands of Indians constantly harassing them. The pony express rider plies his precarious vocation, and profiteering white men spread unrest among the reds with sales of liquor and arms. Gen. George A. Custer is attempting to round up the tribes and bring peace to the country. The massacre of Custer and his men of the Seventh Cavalry furnishes a tremendous climax, and one of the many big scenes of this historically accurate picture West Point, America’s great military academy, is shown with all its picturesqueness. Gen. Custer and President Grant, Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face, have their places among its characters, while a pretty romance, tragic adventure and side-splitting comedy have been cleverly worked into it. Box plan now open. Telephone 2713.