ENTERTAINMENTS.

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

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. . v “THAT’S MY DADDY.” A large audience presented itself at the Opera House last evening to witness the screening of the film “That’s My Daddy,” featuring Reginald Denny and Jane Laerne, a baby prodigy recently discovered by Reginald Denny himself. The story opens showing a, child in morbid surroundings who has “no daddy,” and generally leading a very dismal life owing to her guardian’s unkindly ways and the hostile attitude adopted by the other children of that area, towards her. The climax comes, and Jane Laerne, the child star, decides to run away, and in her endeavour to put as much distance between her and her irate guardian is knocked down by a motor car and taken to the children’s hospital. Meanwhile Denny, in the role of a. wealthy baclielor, was speeding on his journey to meet his fiancee, Miss Sylvia Van Tassnl, and the speed “cop” decided it was a pace that needed repressing. When overtaken by the policeman Denny was told to ’phone the party to tell them he would be 60 days late. From now on the trouble commenced, for Denny invented the story that he was speeding on account of his little girl being injured in an accident, and he was going to the children’s hospital with all possible haste. Denny, together with the speed “cop,” finds himself at the beside of the little' girl, and there she recognises him as being her “dream daddy,” and so immediately established a claim by saying “daddy.” The wedding day arrived, and the ceremony had been decided to be held on Denny’s private yacht. The critical moment cam© when in the midst of the wedding the little girl said l “That my Daddy.” For anyone desiring to witness a film so intensely humorous, combined with childish pathos, the picture “That’s my Daddy” is sure to please. This feature film, together with a full supporting programme, will be shown again this evening. GRAND THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING (WEDNESDAY). ‘ ‘RUNNING WILD. 5 ’ “Running Wild,” the Paramount comedy-drama, which will open at the Grand Theatre to-morrow evening, tells the story of a timid soul, always the underdog, who is converted into an .aggressive, forceful personality while under a hypnotic spell. He runs amuck, and while under the delusion that he is a. lion, knocks out a burly truck-driver, subdues his wife and browbeating stepson, has the satisfaction of seeing two big business men vie for his services, and helps a match* between his daughter and the sou of his employer. When the spell is _ broken, he so fancies himself in this new guise that he decides to remain “a ioaring lion.” W. C. Fields rises to new heights of comedy in this story of <a “lamb” who becomes a “lion.” Fields made his screen debut in D. W. Griffith’s “Sally of the Sawdust.” Mary Brian, who made her cinema how in “Peter Pan,” has a part _ quite different from those she has been playing-. ; A full supporting programme b? to be shown, and there will be an orchestra in attendance.