ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 October 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSEr—TO-NIGHT. SPECIAL ATTRACTION. The greatest stars of filmland will be featured in the monster musical comedy extravaganza, “Paramount on. Parable,” commencing a special season tonight of two nights, with a monster matinee to-morrow, at the Opera House, Hawera. Many of the scenes are in teclmicolour, and humour abounds in the production. Everyone of the stars in the huge cast 'plays a real part. There is Charles Rogers and Lilian Roth, wita a boy and girl chorus, while William Powell as Pluto Vance. Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes, Eugene Pallette as Sergeant Heath, and Warner Claud, as J>r. Fu© Manelm, appear in a clever travesty of detective mysteries. Then comes “The toreador,” with Harry Green in that role, and Kay Francis as Carmen, an altogether gorgeous item, followed by But.lt Chattel-ton in a Parisian cafe singing “My Marine” ; Maurice Chevalier, in the rcie of a Paris gendarme, patrols a park with lovers on every bench, singing all the time “All I Want is Just One. Girl’’ and little Mitzi Green follows in a burlesque of the same song, after which she gives an imitation of Chevalier’s rendering. Helen Ivane becomes a teacher of a modernistic schoolroom. Dennis King figures in the Gallows Song, while Sheets Gallagher rushes forward demanding that King sing before ihe dies. 'Others in the production are Clara Bow, Richard Arlenu. Georjge Bancroft and Nancy Carroll. Bancroft’s item is indeed a scream. After going through, a social function as he ,should, he demonstrates how lie would like to act at a party. The concluding sketch of the session is another teclinicolour masterpiece, in which Maurice Chevalier and his company of girls appear as chimney sweeps, afterwards floating away over the clouds to the tune of “Sweeping the Clouds Away.” The supporting programme will include. “Take a Trip in My Airship” (bouncing hall song cartoon), and “Business in Great Waters” (all talking novelty dealing with the laying of deep sea cable). The box plan is open at Miss Blake’s, ’phono 2713. Intending patrons will he wise to reserve. There will he a free bus from Kaponga, to-night: ’phone 50, Kaponga. L. Plant, and hook seats.

ELTIIAM THEATRE

‘THE PALL OF EVI

A scintillating comedy perfect to the last degree, lavishly presented "with an all-star east is not. enough’ to describe “The Pall of Eve,” which shows l «:t the Eltham Theatre to-night. It ’s- just a real scream and is a- story of two men who planned a time- out without their wives and landed all sorts of trouble serious to them, hut- the funniest ever to watch. Two old, favourites, Ford 'Sterling and Patsy Ruth Miller, are the stars and they certainly outdo them selves.