ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE! “TALKIES.” DOUBLE! FEATURE PROGRAMME. A double feature programme, “Jazz Heaven” and “The 13th Chair,” is to be finally presented at the Opera House this evening. Both are all-talking productions and aw unusual in- their style. “Jazz Heaven,” starring Sally -O’Neill, Clyde. Cook and John Alack Brown, is the. story of a young southern. hoy who lias gone, to New York to attempt to sell a. song. He lias difliculty with almost everything. Then Ruth, a. song-pluggev for a. music publisher, comes into the breach and tries to help, the boy toward success. While they are practising their big song together they are accidentally broadcast, and the result is sudden fame. The sparkling personality of Sally O’Neill counts a great deal in “Jazz Heaven,” while Clyde Cook

\makes a handsome hero. There is some f particularly good: comedy relief provided! by Johnny and Jack Brown and Joseph Cawthorn, and the song hit. “Someone,” is outstanding. A; mysi’.ery ) thriller in the eerie atmosphere of Calcutta. is what you will see and he«i,r in the mystery production, ‘ ‘The 1 3th Chair,” .starring Gonrad Nagel and Leila Hyams, which tho first attraction on the programme. The action is laid in the British Governor’s home in Calcutta, and the weird mystery of India, together with strange lighting| effects such as moonbeam shining on | the murderer’s knife thrown into thei ceiling are among interesting technical j details in the story. Tables are proved I by “Spirit Media” before a circie of 1J amazed people, and a second murdd' is coniiuittud' under mystifying circumstances. Suspicion points at many, but there, arc weird experiences before the secret of the murders and the identity of the murderer is revealed. GUANO THEATRE-—TO-NIGLIT. “TJLEI DRAKE CASE," f A murder trial, court-room picture that’s different, refreshingly new in story and treatment, “The Drake Case,” sensational Universal picture, will be shown at the Grand Theatre tonight only. An all-star cast, headed by the emotional Gladys Brockwell, Forrest Stanley, Robert Frazer, James Crane, and Doris Lloyd, was assembled for “The Drake Case,” an original story by Charles Logue. and it is heralded as one of the most unusual and thrilling pictures of its. kind. Miss Brockwell plays the role of the defendant in the case, accused of murder. Stanley is in a. role in which he has shown his finesse as an actor—the prosecuting district attorney. Frazer is the defence attorney and Crane and Miss Lloyd have equally important . parts. Director Edward Laemmle was determined to create the greatest court-room picture with “The Drake Case.” and no effort was spared! to achieve this goal. The picture grips , the spectator from the first scene until . its thrilling .culmination in the court-1' room, a surprise ending that defies do-1 , teetion as the story unreels itself in the testimony of witnesses at the trial. - The story is built about the murder: of the wealthy Mrs- George Morgan Drake, for which a servant in her j home, Gladys Brockwell, is arrested. Others in ,the cast are Bill Thorne, ‘ Eddie Hearn, Tommy Dugan. Byron

Douglas, Firane-is Ford, Henry Barrows, Amber Norman and Barbara Leonard. Other supporting pictures include tho serial “Tho Pirate at Panama,' 1 two news reels, a cartoon and a. .comedy* ■MANAIA ‘TALKIES.’’ TOMORROW AT 2.30 AND S P.M. “ihe Hying Marine,” the great epic oj the air to be pre/sented .at the Man-aia “Talkies” to-morrow afternoon and evening, is easily one of tihs finest talking pictures the audible lra.3 yet presented 1 . Never before have thrills been presented in esucli bewildering manner and never before has a. picture presented .snob delightful romance. The air stunts include barrel rolls, banks, leaps, tail spins, nose divas, parachute, jumps and every other spao tacuilar flying stunt known, and many that are attempted for the' finstJime. It is a drama that /holds you, /spellbound!— a handsome you tin crashing down from dizzie .heights, venturing all on a. daredevil escapade to win the girl' he loved only to fail in the end; truly an epic/ pictinm Patrons are advised 1 not. to miss this unusual production,..and, remember to reserve the 25th and' 26thl of June for the all-singing-talking-•dlancnng film, with natural colour, -tire screen’s first and best, operetta, “The Desert Bong.”