ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT, “THE NEWS PARADE.”

“The News Parade,” which screens at the Opera House to-night, furnishes sprightly entertainment. It ha® adventure, thrills and a captivating love story enacted by Sally Pliipps and Nick Stuart, the two engaging youngsters who played so well in “High School Hero.”. The picture deals with the life qf a news-reel cameraman, one of the most romantic callings left in a slightly prosaic world. “Newsreel Nick” gets the assignment of photographing an eccentric millionaire who hates cameramen. To get the picture he has to pursue the old moneybag, impersonated by Brandon Hurst, from New York to'Lake Placid, Palm Beach and Havana. Incidentally, he falls in love with his beautiful daughter, Sally Phipps. There are many difficulties in the way, including two international crooks in the persons of Eearle Foxe and Cyril Ring. But “Newsreel Nick gets the picture and the girl. An amusing incidental turn of the plot is the conversion of the erstwhile camera-shy millionaire into a veritable “camera cootie.” Director David Butler aiirl William Conselman wrote the story, and Bumet Hershey- the scenario, The box plan is at- Miss Blake’s sweet shop.

GR AND THEATRE. “TELLING THE WORLD.” “Telling the World” which opened at the Grand Theatre last night, is the best of the line of starring pictures with which William Haines has- periodically convulsed and thrilled the people of Australia and New Zealand. The story concerns a youthful ne’er-do-well who gets a job on a newspaper and as his first assignment is told to interview the father who kicked him out. The hoy however responds with an article on “Why Sons Leave Home. Then a practical joke is played on him —he is sent to report a fictitious murder—but a murder does actually take place and he is on the spot. After that the thrills and the comedy develop into the outstanding picture of the year. Anita Page makes _ her debut to the screen opposite William Haines. Ihe supporting programme includes AL.G.JM. News, comedy, scenic and. the final chapter of “The Haunted Island.