ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 August 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GRAND THEATRE—TO-NIGHT. • STRONG BOY.” A strong star for ‘‘Strong Boy.,’’ Victor McLaglen’s new picture, with a powerful supporting cast and a robust theme. The assisting comedians are Farrell MacDonald, Clyde Cook and ‘‘Slim” Summerville, ‘‘the three Mirthgetters” of filmdom. “Strong Boy” is a bustling, strongarmed love comedy that teems with life, tingles with humour, and presents the former star of “What Price Glory?” in his sunniest vein. McLagien is cast as a baggage-room Romeo, who finds himself in a trunkfid of trouble when a baby, a. monkey, and a rope of pearls get tangled up in his domain. If the start is hectic the finish is more so, for “Strong Boy” concludes with a thrilling train robbery that mixes laughs with villainy. A charming Jove story of a girl’s successful attempt to fire her sweetheart, with ambition is skilfully entwined with farcical adventures. Lovely Beatrice Joy is McLaglen’s little lady. “Strong Boy” opens a twoseason at the Grand 1 Theatre to-night. A strong supporting programme will include the serial “Wolves of the ' North.” OPERA HOUSE. “THE. MAN WHO LAUGHS.” “The Man Who Laughs,” at the Opera House, is a dignified, artistic, elaborate movie version of the Victor Hugo classic. It- is a great spectacle, but not a completely satisfying entertainment-. The love affair between a vapid blind girl and a monster does not carry any emotional kick. But the picture was faithfully and l honestly made, of vast credit to Universal. Conrad Veidt, with hideous elongated teeth and a deformed mouth, is the I clown Gwynplaine. He plays his part well, hut somehow misses in establishing sympathy. Mary Philbin, in a Mary Pickfordish wig, is a beautiful

Dea. Stuart Holmes and Olga Baclanova are- prominent in the cast. “The Man Who Laughs” Will he finally screened this evening.

OPER A HOUSE. SATURDAY MATINEE. MILTON SILLS IN “THE BARKER” At the matinee to-morrow (Saturday), Milton Sills will be -seen in the First National attraction “The Barker.” It is a fast moving story of carnival life, adapted from the famous stage play of that name. _ The serial “Wolves of the North” will he also screened at the matinee.