ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE!—FINALLY TO-NIGHT.

“HOME JAMES.”.

“Home James”, Laura La Plant’s latest comedy special screens for the last time at the Opera House this evening. “Home James” is the story of a department store clerk, played by Miss La Plante, who comes to the big city to be an artist. Instead she sells art goods behind the counter of a large establishment in which she is merely a cog in the wheel. Laura, becomes, the main cog, however, when she meets the boss’s son while the old man is away. Thinking him a chauffer she permits herself to fall in love with him The truth comes out after about five reels of fun. The boss permits the marriage, however, when he learns that Laura has made his son work harder than ever before.

An outstanding supporting programme includes International and British news reel, cartoon, Stern Bros, comedy and the popular series of “The Peacemakers.” Hie box phut for this evening is at Miss Blake’s sweet ship.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-MORROW

“THE LAST COMMAND.’

The brilliance of the great German screen player, Emil Jannings, seems to influence other members, of the cast in “The Last Command,” which is to commence at the Opera House to-mor-row, Wednesday. In a marvellous finale, living his life again in a motion picture scene, Jannings reaches the heights of dramatic acting. He is the only screen actor who can paint a character in strong colours with the use of pastel tints. It is a story of the red revolt in Russia, showing Jannings as a mighty general, strictly military, but beloved by liis. men. He befriends a girl but imprisons her companion, the girl in turn saving him from death at the hands of tlie revolutionists. He then goes to America in search of his fair saviour, and at this stage the thread of the story takes a strange twist. The exceptional supporting cast is headed by William Powell and Evelyn Brent. The season is for three nights and the box plan is at Miss. Blake’s sweet shop.