ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 November 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. “WHAT PRIDE GLORY.” New York rooked with laughter for more than ia> season at the comedy scenes in “What Price Glory.” a film play of vast and inseparable entertainment qualities. It is very funny, vitally hard-boiled, and triumphant free, for the most part, from the sticky slabs of sentiment which hertofore have marred productions or a similar type. The characters are real and without compromise. There i.s a wealth of rollicking, individual touches, that keep the audience simmering with laughter. The dramatic incidents grip the imagination, and hold the attenton right to the last.

A few superlatives might he laid at the feet of tlie principal artiste, Victor MoLaglen, Edmund Loive and Delores Del Rio. The trinity catch and hold the spotlight by living, rather than by acting, the roles assigned them. “What Price Glory” is not only a great and absorbing picture, with excitement and appeal, but it is a comedy crowded with incidents that will bring a chuckle and suspense long after the moment of viewing it. Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara are delightfully human and likeable.

“What Price Glory” will be presenttod at the Opera House to-night and finally to-morrow Thursday.

GRAND THEATRE TO-NIGHT. “BROODING EYES.” At the Grand Theatre to-night the powerful drama, “Brooding Eyes’ ’ commences a two-night season. It is an intriguing mystery picture of <aj man with position, who went bad, land for his daughter’s sake paid the supreme penalty to re-establish her in his ancestral home. Lionel Barrymore, the worldfamous actor, takes the featured role, and the supporting cast includes Ruth Clifford, Robert Ellis and a number of other prominent players. A full programme is to be shown, which includes an imperial comedy and Fox News. A FAIRY PLAY. Y'OUNG HAWERA PERFORMERS. A very interesting and attractive performance will be given at the Opera House on Friday evening, -when the pupils of Mrs Wilson- will stage the fairy play “Goldilocks and 'The Three Bears.” It will be dressed and staged on the lines that Mrs Wilson has made her own. In addition there will be a recital of dancing by pupils, making a fine show all round. MERRY-GO-ROUND AND CHAIROPLANE, Attracted by the music of the steam and the electric orehestraphon© and brilliant lighting effects, large concourses of people are to be seen nightly, gathered around the popular merry-go-round and chairoplane, featured by Messrs Gibson and Miller, who have commenoed their show week season on' the usual location in Princes Street. While many stand and watch, the more venturesome—and among these' are to be numbered quite a number of the older visitors—indulge in the thrills of being whirled aloft, by the fast moving Chairoplane, and a further contingent takes the more staid amusement on the merry-go-round. No matter how definitely one may have decided that such amusement would be too undignified or too enervating, the' machines appear to exercise an almost irrestibl© attraction on the ohlooker, who eventually becomes on© of the happy throng, to whom such amusement does not appear to lose its novelty.

GRAND LODGE BALL. The grand lodge ball which will he held under the auspices of the Loyal Manaia Lodge (Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity) takes place in the Otakeho Hall on Friday, November 18. Last year’s lodge ball proved to be a most popular function, and no doubt this year’s effort will be the same undoubted success a;s its predecessor. Boulton’s orchestra of four instruments will he in attendance, and this capable quartette, together with a good floor and sumptuous supper, should add considerably to the evening’s enjoyment. All arrangements for the ball are well on the road to completion, and, favoured with a fine night, the efforts of the committee should he suitably rewarded. The grand march is timed to take place at 8.30 p.m., instead of 8 p.m. For the convenience of dance patrons between Hawera and Otakeho desirous of attending the ball a free ’bus will leave the Aard garage, Hawera, at 7.45 p.m., returning after the ball.