ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 May 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE CRADLE SNATCHERS. ’ ’ OUTSTANDINGLY AMUSING. William Fox has produced an unqualified .success in “The Cradle Snatchers,” which was screened! to a. full house last night. The plot, winch is. most- intriguing, permits inanj amusing and embarrassing situations, and is worked out in a manner which entertains the audience and causes much mirth. Three wives, Kitty, Ethel and Susan, weary of staying at home while their husband go out, officially on business, decide they shall be taught a lesson. Mrs. Ladd (Kitty) discovers a note in her husband’s pocket which incriminates all three husbands, and explains that they really spend the evenings entertaining some of the young things from Broadway. '’So when these errant swains depart for their usual hunting party at the week-end, the wives put their heads together and decide to hire three university students to make love to them, so that their husbands will become jealous and give up ‘chicken stealing.’ One student, Henry, who is in love with Kitty’s niece." is first drawn into the net, and is perfectly willing to make a clear 1000 dollars and lie produces' his room mate, “a sheik,” who is introduced to the ladies as a Spanish osteopath. The third is a young Swedish student, very keen on work and terrified, of any Indy, but nevertheless determined to earn his 1000 ‘bucks.’ The ladies decide to go to the Ladd’s country house for the week-end: with their young men, and then the fun begins. Susan, a blonde, is extremely thrilled with her Spanish hull fighter, who plays up to the part manfully. Ethel, extremely prim? is rather horrified by the whole affair; and when her _ “great, big, sea-faring Swede” (thinking only of the 1000 dollars) attempts to entertain her she will have nothing to do with him. The hunting husbands call ot the house on their way to hunt, and are astounded to find 1 their wives there. The wives, too, are rather taken aback, hut when the three Rroadway girls come in to find their Romeos the tables are turned indeed. The cast has been excellently chosen. Louis Fazenda:, the blonde, is. a work of art. while Ethel Wales as Kitty and Dorothy Philips, as the prim Ethel fill their parts to perfection. The erring husbands are also very good and, most amusing. There' is a good supporting programme. “The Cradle Snatchers” will he filmed 1 again to-night at the Opera. House, and intending patrons are: well advised to hook. Box plan at Miss Blake’s Opera House Confectionery.

GRAND THEATRE TO-NIGHT. FINAL SCREENING, “NEVADA.” Gary Cooper, Paramount star, proudly admits that his first real chance on the screen was given him by one of the small independent producers in the down-at-the-heels picture section of Hollywood. Cooper has his latest starring vehicle in the Zane Grey special, “Nevada,” showing finally tonight- at the Grand Theatre. It is a free story of the West. William Powell is up .to villainy again in this special and impersonates' “Clan” Dillon, a bad-man who whole-heartedly helps to make the great open spaces unhealthy. Thelma Todd, blonde beauty of the screen, who came from the east recently under contract to Paramount, has been initiated into the seniority of'film heroines of the West, islie appears as Gary Cooper’s leading woman. / Miss Todd is one of the Paramount Picture School graduates who made good. There is an excellent programme in support including latest Comedy Cartoon, Travelogue, Scenic and Gazette