ENTERTAINMENTS.

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

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO'-NIGHT.

FINAL SCREENING

“THE KING OF KINGS.”

Cecil. B. de Mille’s pictunsation of the life and wdrks of Jesug. Christ “The King of Kings,”- now showing at the Opera House, has proved one ot the greatest attractions ever shown in Hawera. In the words of a southern cricit, “ ‘The King of Kings’ is a magnificent sermon, which needs no translation, set forth as it is in the universal language of the eye, which renders the message of the Gospel in eloquent testimony. Taking the mam points or the New Testament, the director has brought forth all of its dramatic and spiritual import. With bold, but sympathetic, strokes he does away with any merely symbolic representation, ana depicts Christ ns a flesh and bipod figure. It took considerable courage, also, to record other departures 1 run l the accepted standard So one sees the dramatic moments of ‘The Bast ©upper,’ the Garden of Gethsemane, the march to Calvary, and the actual tragedy on the Cross. The Last Supper is an amazing example of photographic art. It is Da Vinci’s gorgeous canvas brought to life —hurnamseo accuracy 'and feeling.’’ 4 The hiing o Kings” will be finally screened this evening.

GRAND 1 THEATRE, TO-NIGHT

‘ ‘EUCHARISTICI CONG HESS. ’ ’

“THE DIVINE! WOMAN”

The glamour of the theatre and the human interest that underlies the spectacle of the gilded butterflies of the sta°e —these are the elements that make “The Divine Woman” the most dramatic and impelling story that Greta Garbo, the famous Swedish vet appeared in. This new Melio-Goldwvn-Mayer production opens at the Grand' Theatre to-night and is one of the screen’s masterpieces. Jt is based on the life of the imntortal I‘rench actress Sarah Bernhardt, and tells of loves, hates, successes and failures ot a peasant who climbed the dizzy heights to success and became the toast ot a nation, only to lose the only man she had ever loved. Lars Hanson plays the ieading male is the official motion picture illustrating m detail the historic events during the four _days of the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney. This film is in three reels and includes some remarkable scenes of the congress. Other films of interest on the same programme are the serial “The VamsiiM.G.M. News, N.Z Scenic an" dcomedy. An orchestra will be m attendance.

OPERA HOUSE

MATINEE TO-MORROW (SATURDAY)

A special programme will be presented at the Opera House to-morrow aftemoon at 2 o’clock, the star attraction being the Fox mystery drama, A Thief, in the Dark.” Other films ot interest will he the 2Dth International Congress at Sydney, serial “The Vanishing Rider,” and comedy.