ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 August 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT MATINEE TO-MORROW (THURSDAY.) BEERY-HATTON COMEDY.

“Now We’re in the Air,” a Paramount comedy special, will open a three-night season at the Opera House to-night (Wednesday). There is a comedy that has everything —good photography, good direction, Capable stars, and a good story. Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton have done the impossible and topped all their previous successes, “Behind the Front,” “We’re in the Navy Now,” and “Firemen, Save My Child.” Beery iand H'at'ton become aviators when their clothes are blown off when they get in front o f a battery of airplane prop ell oris on the testing blocks at a flying field. They fall in love with twin sisters, one of whom has been raised a German, the other a French girl. Many of the difficulties arise over their inability to tell their sweethearts aplart, which is not surprising when it is considered that the same Lousie Brocks ’ plays both parts capably and charmingly. The gags are new and frequent throughout, the picture, and will raise Beery and Hatton to a still higher plane as laugh purveyors. The supporting programme will include chapter seven of “The Collegians.” The box plan for to-night is at Miss Blake’s sweet shop.

GRAND THEATRE, TO-NIGHT

“SERENADE.”

Adolphe Men] ou, as a musical genius of Vienna, Kathryn Carver as the beautiful girl who becomes his inspiration aind finally Ms wife, Lima Basquette as the gorgeous dancer who lures him away from his home and Lawrence Grant as the be whiskered _ Cupid, who manages to repair the ruined romance —that is the oast that enacts what Paramount believes to be one of the new season s finest pictures— ‘ ‘Serenade.” This production, which opens a to-night season at the Grand Theatre to-night, was directed by Harry D’Airrast, the young man who so ably guided Mr Menjou through both “Service for Ladies and “A Gentleman of Paris.” It is the storv of a man whose music makes him famous only after he has met the girl whose love inspire® him toward greater things. It is a storv of fame and applause, and forgetfulness; of love and duplicity and despair. And running Ml through it is something that takes it apart from anything that has been shown here in many a month a song, a, serenade, that you feel even though vou don’t hear it. Other films of interest on the same programme are two gazettes, inkwell cartoon, scenic and comedy. i