ENTERTAINMENTS.

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

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE —TO-NIGHT. “JUST ANOTHER, BLONDE” AND “THE ETON COLLEGE BOY.” Consistent excellence was the feature of the programme presented last evening at the Opera House. In the First National comedy attraction, “Just Another Blonde,” four of the screen’s best-known players, Dorothy Maekaill, Jack Mulhall, Louise Brookes and William Collier Jr., combine to make the film a very enjoyable one. Many of the sets in “Just Another Blonde” have been . made in New York’s famous playground, Coney Island, and are thoroughly interesting. The story, however, has not been neglected by the provision of extreme amusement and thrills —and there are many of the latter—and the human touch is brought into the picture at frequent intervals with good effect. To-night will see the final appearance of the popular turn, “The Eton College Boy.” GRAND THEATRE, TO-NIGHT. “THE CAT’S PYJAMAS.” Hailed by the critics as “the ideal: Betty Bronson picture,” Paramount’,s delightful comedy-romanoe, “The Cat’s Pyjamas,” which is >to be screened at the Grand Theatre to-night, might also be called the “ideal Ricardo Cortez picture.” Never has this popular young, actor appeared to better advantage than in this film, .in which hei is co-starred with Miss Bronson. “The Cat’s Pyjamas,” from the time the yitvigning title is thrown on the screen until the last flicker showing Betty Bronson’s delightful cat fading; intothe distance with a family of kittens, is brimful of sparkling comedy arid -splendid entertainment. The supporting cast includes that grand old. man, Theodore Roberts, and the charming lily of France, A'rlette Marscbal. The supporting programme includes the serial “The Fighting Ranger.”

OPERA HOUSE, MONDAY NEXT. “THE RAT,” A STORY OF APACHE LIFE. Britain’s most romantic ' and profiled actor, Ivor Novello, plays the title role in “The Rat,” a magnificent British production which is to be presented at the Opera House on Monday next for a two-night season. Dramas of apache life, a life which intrigues and fascinates and mystifies nearly all the world, always have a strong appeal. They appeal more to the imagination than to anything else, an appeal which is strictly emotional. So little is actually known of these slinking shadows of Paris, so little is known of their origin, ' that novelists and dramatists content themselves with painting lurid pictures of their orgies and the like, and the picture, more often than not, is frankly the creation of a hyper-imaginative brain, although at the same time it may he gloriously colourful in a vivid, riotous way. “The Rat” is none of these things. It is dramatic, romantic, with emotional thrills enough to satisfy the most inthere is pathos approaching the tragic in it, it is, in short, swift, inexorable French drama presented with British stolidity, which wastes no time with the purely theatrical, which refuses to pander to sensationalism. “The Rat” is fit to rank with the great picture -master-pieces of the world. Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans are two other famous artists in the cast.

OPERA HOUSE. SHOW WEEK ATTRACTIONS. Tli© management of tlie Opeba House will present a fine line of attractions during Show Week, commencing Mom day next with the great British photodrama “The Rat,” which will go down in picture history as one of the year’s as “The Rat,” has an interesting and outstanding productions. Ivor Novell©, romantic role to play, and is supported by Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans. On Wednesdnv and Thursday next the Universal super attraction “The Midnight Sun.” will he presented. This is a dazzling spectacle starring Laura. La Pi ante. On Friday and Saturday next the cleverest comedy of the. season is to be shown, “The Lunatic at Large.” Leon Errol is the star in this feature. Commencing on Monday, July 4, the long-waited-for “Beau Geste” will have its initial screening in Hawera. The season Is for three nights,_ and intending patrons are well advised to hook early for this super attraction. The story has been adapted from the novel of tlie same name by P. C. Wren, and interpreted by a caste that leaves nothing to be desired’. Ronald Coleman is “Beau Geste” and Neil Hamilton and R.’.aph Forbes hi® brothers.