ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 June 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TONIGHT.

“TIN GODS.”

Not since he made “Manslaughter’' and “The Miracle Man,” has Thomas Meighan really been seen in a picture which offered him an opportunity to display his brilliant talents, a picture which possessed' fire and action, romance and the ups and downs of life, a picture, in short, that was really worthy of him. One could have said all that before the advent of “Tin Gods,” but not now. “Tin Gods” is to be presented at the Opera House tonight and to-morrow (Saturday), and will surely prove a most welcome truest, as it were, to the many admiies of the particular art of Thomas Meighan. One thing stands prom.-' inently in ‘ ‘ Tin Gods, ’ ’ apart from its arresting and eloquent title. Melodramatic and theatrical effect, sometimos good but more often bad, have been fearlessly and mercilessly scrapped in this picture to ensure a faithful and, truly sincere rendering of life-like drama. Thus it is that, while the climax surprises on account of its illfrequency in photoplays, one’s better sense quickly recognises in this same climax, a true replica of life, and. one appreciates the fineness and -artistry of the drama all the more. Meighan’s personality, always suggestive ot slumbering fires and strength restrain, ed, fits into the role which this drama calls into being, like a glove. The supporting programme is of high merit.

GRAND THEATRE, TO-NIGHT,

“THE UNKNOWN CAVALIER.”

The activities of the \ igilantes, the “citizen police” which used to spring to action and to arms whenever law and order was seriously threatened in the Old West, features “The Unknown Cavalier,” the current attraction at the Grand Theatre. One of these times was in the “Days of ’49” in California, when the gold rush was on, and another was in New Orleans some forty years later, when widespread lioting had to be controlled. _ In “The Unknown Cavalier, ’ ’ which stars Ken Maynard for First National, the Vigilantes are shown operating against bandits that oncG harassed the good people of the Western country. The supporting programme includes the final edisode of the serial “Fighting with Buffalo Bill.”