ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 March 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOTJSEI TO-NIGHT. ONE! NIGHT ONLY. “TWO GIRLS WANTED.” The ssiorj of “2 Girls Wanted,’’ which wil ibe .screened at the Opera House to-night, is of absorbing interest liighly romantic and spiced with whimsical humor as well as pathos and heart throbs. It deals with two sisters lighting for a living in New York, with Miss Gaynor as the one who is forced in a last desperate effort to get a job by masquerading as a boy. This is made necessary because her sister, played my Marie .Mosquini, is home suffering from an injury. It is while she is disguised as a boy that she first meets the man of the story, Dexter Wright, played with humor and sympathy by Glenn Tryon. This is an ideal picture from every angle, both from the story interest and characterization. There is humor, pathos and romance in this picture of a kind that appeals to all. And above all there is Miss Gaynor, her own winsome, smiling, plucky self, winning the hearts of all who see her. A cast of players of unusual merit support Miss Gaynor, including Glenn Tryon, Marie Mosquini, Ben Bard, Joseph Cawthorn, Doris Lloyd and others almost equally well known and popular. The supporting programme includes a comedy and Fox News.

GR AND THEATRE TO-NIGHT.

“THE! TEMPTRESS

“The Temptress”, much heralded Metro-Gold wy n-Maye r filmisation of Vicente Blasco Ibanez’s noted novel, will be screened at the Grand Theatre, to-night. Miss Garbo and Antonia Moreno prove an ideal combination as the Russian enchantress and the Spanish, engineer—one a pampered pet of the rich who is capable of turning into a human tigress when love finally comes to her; the other a man of Nature, battling the vastness of Nature in gigantic engineering problems. The spectacular bull whip duel; the wreck of the great dam; the climax of the drama; these are all huge incidentalis to a huge story; a romance that will never be forgoteen by those who see it.

Praise must be given the acting of the: huge cast; such artists as Lionel Barrymore, Btoy D’Arcy, Marc MdDermott, Armand Kaliz, Virginia Brown Fair©, Hector V. Sarno and others in the mighty epic. There is a big programme in support to the “Temptress” including the serial, comedy, cartoon, Scenic and News.

OPERA. HOUSE MONDAY

“LES MISER ABIES. ”

“It is the greatest work of epic and dramatic fiction which has ever been created or conceived by the human brain,” says the Encylopedia Britannica, of Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables.”. It would be conservative to use the same language in describing the colossal motion picture production of “Les MLserabies,” which opens a three night season at the Opera House on Monday, for the Universal Film de France triumph is, without dout, a surpassing cinema achievement. This majestic drama of humanity, striving under the yoke of ignorance and unjust power, has had, in its book form more readers than any other work except the Bible. As a motion picture production it has made new attendance records in every European country and has been acclaimed by two continents as the greatest film triumph of the old world. Two years were spent in making this stupendous motion picture at a cost that mounted to millions of francs. Many of the scenqj) were taken on the exact locations indicated by the author in his book. The streets of these towns were altered to appear as they did a century ago. Each of those operations ran into prohibitive costs. But the French hold their favourite author in such esteem that not even the remolding of a town, could stand in the w’ay of their producing “Les Misorables” with absolute fidelity down to the last detail. The principal players were selected from the French _ stage and the most renowned actors in the land chosen to- portray the characters created by Hugo. The box-plan is now open at Miss Blake’s sweet shop.