ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 April 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. COMMENCING TO-NIGHT. “THE FLAMING FRONTIER.” “The Flaming Frontier,” an Edward Sedgwick-Universal production, commencing to-night at the Opera. House with an aid-star cast, is an liistoric picture of tlie making ol the West that carries with it thrills and a real heart interest that make of it a screen production long to be remembered. Rased on the Custer massacre it has for its background the winning of the West with the neverfailing appeal to the imagination that this epocii carries, while through it runs as pretty and as gripping a love story as lias ever been written. The story of “The Flaming Frontier” is set down in the days in and around 1876. Hardy settlers are still carving out the great Empire of the West with disgruntled bauds of Indians constantly' harassing them. . The supports ino Aide the serial The Radio Detective.”

GR AND THEATRE. “THE LILY.” “The Lily,” which opens a two-night night, is based oil David JBalesco s stags success of the same name. Belle Bennett is starred in “The Lily.' She gave a remarkable performance as the mother in “Stella Dallas,” ana she p-ives another such performance m “The Lily.” She plays the part of a beautiful daughter who has been denied love owing to the tyranny of a oweedy, unbending father. When the father jeopardises another daughter s exquisite love affairs, the older daughter (Miss Bennett) .steps: in and denounces him in a very dramatic iscene. lan Keith, star of the stage and screen. <rives an excellent portrayal of the artist whom the younger sister loves. Renta Hoyt, a .stage beauty, piays Christiane. the younger sister, to perfection. Others in tlie cast include Barry Norton, John. St. Polis, Richaid Tucker Gertrude Short, .Tames Marcus, Thomas Ricketts, Vera Lewis, Betty Francisco. Rosa Riidami and Lydia Yearnans Titius. The picture will be supported bv Fox News, comedy, and epiosde Bof the “Radio Detective serial.

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

OFFICIAL FILMING

OPERA HOUSE, NEXT TUESDAY. ' A wonderful series of incidents m the great world Eucharistic Congress in Chicago are .pictured in the official film to be shown at the Opera House on Tuesday evening next by His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein. Records .show that there never has been such as assemblage in. the history or the world. A million people are estimated to have been present round the littk-i town of Mundelein, named after tlie Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago. The pictures covers all phases of the spectacle, and includes myriads of views taken by many cameras at the procession in Mundelein. Special railroad stations had to lie built: a. police force was present ’made up of sheriffs, constables. guardsmen and policemen borrowed from the big city; isix wide roads of concrete and six hundred cement walks were constructed; two hospitals were furnished, equipped for emergency with hundreds of doctors and nurses; and hosts of other details were given attention. The great demonstration is shown in detail: The proeessios marches through the storm, with the gorgeous robes of the prelates and priests ruined beyond repair, and innumerable other details of unusual interest are shown, making this a truly wonderful picture. Seats may be hooked at Miss Blake’s store at the Opera House. EMPRESS THEATRE, MANAIA. TO-MORROW NIGHT. For gasp-producing action, spinetingling suspense, clean comedy and tender love scenes, “The Bat,” famous mystery picture is in a class bv itself. Roland" West-, genius of mystery melodrama, has taken the: Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood stage .success and made it into what critics pronounce the year’s biggest “surprise picture.” Audiences are kept on the edge of their seats from the opening scenes to the startling finish, when the mask is lorn from “The Bat/’ and he is disclosed as one .of the least suspected characters. The- weird, settings and unsurpassed photography in “The Bat ’ make it one of the artistic as well as outstanding dramatic triumphs of the last ten years. Although the plot of the stage play has been followed, new complications have been introluced to baffle even the hundreds of thousands who saw the sponken drama.