ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 April 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT. “RUNNING WILD.” As Elmer Finch, timid soul who becomes a “roaring lion,” W. G. lields is said to have his funniest screen role to date. The laughs can easily be imagined when one Knows that Fields appears as a brow-beaten, unasserting husband. He is henpecked at home by a nagging wife and a pesty stepson, and stepped on in the office by a hottempered employer. Then, suddenly, everything changes. He is hypnotised and made to believe that he’s a “roaring lion.” A complete change is effected. Elmer runs home, .breaks up a party, and beats the boy before hurraing to the olfice, where he butts in at a directors’ meeting and —that only starts telling what he does. Of course, tlie spell can’t last forever. Naturally, when the hallucination disappears, all sorts of things happen, and there are lots of persons who start “Running Wild.” An appealing romance between Mary Brian, Elmer’s daughter, and Claud Buchanan, son of Elmer’s boss rambles along through the comedy/ There is a Pig supporting programme, which includues a comedy, Bray cartoon, scenic, and two' topical news reels.