ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 December 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. “The Savage,” a Hirst National picture featuring Ben Lyon and May McAvoy, will be finally screened at the Opera House to-night. In this picture is everything ofte can possibly want in a motion picture. There are thrills, love story, laughs by the score, beautiful women, perfectly marvelous settings, and Ben Lyon gives one of the best performances of his screen career. May McAvoy is admirably ' cast and gives a splendid characterisation, and the other players could not have been more wisely chosen. Sam Hardy, as ’the managing editor of a scientific magazine, is immense. Charlotte Walker, as a wife who believes the wfffe should be the better ninety-five per cent., could not be excelled. Philo MciCoilough is an excellent “heavy” and Tom Maguire apparently was born to play the role of the hen-peeked scientist husband of Charlotte Walker. Most of the story is laid in the South Seas, and there are some unusually fine jungle scenes in which Ben Lyon dashes about garbed in only a goat skin. He even rides on the back of a prehistoric brontosaurus. . * The big programme to be presented to-morrow evening wilL include “The Collegians” and “The Cat and the Canary.”