ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. “THE BLACK PIRATE.” The main reason for the pleasure which Douglas Fairbank’s pictures have given in the past is that Doug, appeals strongly to the part of a man’s mind that never grows up. In each of his stories he has been just what every small boy dreams of being, and these dreams never quite fade avvay as the small boy reaches manhood. His latest pictui-e* “The Black Pirate,” which opened at the Opera House last night, catches this spirit to a degree never reached by him before. There is much that is beautiful, much that is brave and thrilling and spectacular in “The Black Pirate.” The picture is 'entirely in natural colours (incidentally, it is the best colour job from a mechanical standpoint that we have ever seen, and you can easily imagine how lovely are the. scenes showing the moon rippling over the water, the pirates thronging the decks and clambering up into the rigging and burying their treasure in the golden sands of their tropical island. As for bravery and thrills, the very thought of a man contending single-handed against two hundred cut-throats suggests them. Billy Dive is the heroine, and is the only woman in the picture except Ternpe Pigott, who plays a. minor role. Miss Dove seems well worth battling for in a spectacular adventure. “The Black Pirate” shows again to-night and to-morrow night. Episode 5 of the serial “Strings of Steel’’ will be included in the programme this evening.

GRAND THEATRE TO-NIGHT. BUCK .TONES AND EVA NOVAK. An attractively excellent programme commences at the Grand Theatre tonight. A Fox news and then a variety, which shows the making of dolls of all kinds, precede a comedy which relates the wonderful exploits at tennis of Mr Van Bibber. Chapter five of “Strings of Steel” is the last of the supporting films, and the chief picture is a delightful comedy adventure of the city and the wild north, “30 below Zero,” with Buck Jones for the hero and dainty Eva Novak the heroine. “30 Below Zero” is a thrilling story of a wild young man who flees from trouble on Broadway in an airplane, only to be plunged into more strenuous troubles in the north woods. There are plenty of thrills and many humorous situations which keep up interest from the first title to last fadeout.