ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. ‘‘HOME JAMES.” “Home James,” Laura La Plante’s comedy success for Universal, opens a two-night season at the Opera House to-night. Miss La Plante appears in .one of her best roles as the department store clerk in this snappy comedy, which has been called her funniest screen presentation. “Home James” has been called the picture without a gag. All of the lively comedy is achieved- through the clever situations and smart acting of Miss La Plante. The picture is an adaptation of the stage play of the- same jname' by Gladys Johnson. Morton .Blumenstock wwite the screen version, 'keeping in mind the ability of the I stay for pantomime. The interesting istory and the humorous features have ;been retained* and added to for the screen. Charles Delaney enacts the -chief supporting role opposite Miss La Plante. He is one of the most promising young players among the younger men in Hollywood. He is also a funster of real ability. Included in the supporting company are Aileen Manning, Joan Standing. George Pearce, Arthur Hoyt and Sidnev Bracy. William Beaudine directed the picture. • The supporting programme includes the popular! series “The Pacemakers.” The hox plan is at Miss Blake’s.

OPERA HOUSE. COMMENCING WEDNESDAY NEXT. “THE LAST COMMAND.” Emil Jannings’s* latest picture, “The Last Command,” comes to the Opera House on Wednesday next for a series of three nights, with the great European actor surrounded by the most imposing supporting cast assembled for any of tnis season’s pictures. Evelyn Brent, the heroine of “Underworld,” Paramount melo-drama sensation, is cast as Jannings’ leading Woman, wliile William Powell, arch-villain of the screen, is seen as a scheming and sinister .revolutionist in a role that gives him unusual scope for his admitted ability. The picture is said to be distinguished by not only the remarkable performance of Jannings, as a Russian general who is caught in the vortex of revolution and swept to oblivion, but by theoutstanding story and directorial treatment of Josef von Sternberg, the young director whose dramatic touches and camera effects in “Underworld” established' him as one of tlie screen’s elect. Playing the role of Jannings’s adjutant is Nicholas Soussanin, the Russian actor, who leaped into frontrank popularity by his performance as “the waiter who wept,” in the Adolphe Menjou picture “Service for Ladies.” The cast also includes Michael Visaroff, another ex-actor of the imperial theatres of Russia, who plays Jannings’s valet, and Fritz Feld, one time director for Max Reinhardt in- Berlin, who came to America in the cast- of “The Miracle.”

The box plan is now open at Miss Blake’s sweet shop ,