ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 October 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE “TALKIES

THE, GOLDEN CALF

Fox Movietone has scored another tremendous success. “The Golden Calf.’’- described as a comedy •with music, made an auspicious bow at the Opera House, Hawera, last night to an audience which voted it one of the greatest productions of the year. This picture, with an amusing story of Greenwich Village and its artists as a background, has everything that a musical comedy .should have. Beauty, talent, youth, personality, tuneful music, comedy of a high order and dancing by a beauty chorus of 100 unequalled before on stage or screen, are the elements which make this a production no one who enjoys pictures should miss. Sue Carol, in the best role of her career, establishes herself as a real actress, as well as a comedienne of unusual talent and a singer of more than ordinary ability. Jack Mulhall, as the artist-hero, is eminently satisfactory in his light role. He reveals a good voice in a song number with Miss Carol. Included in the cast are Eh Bren del, character comedian, who features a song number, “A Picture No Artist can Paint,” Marjorie White, of “Sunny Side Uip” fame, Richard Keene, who sings and dances delightfully, and Paul Page. The music, uy Cliff Friend and Jimmy Monaco, is of the hit variety and is undoubtedly popular. This attraction will be shown finally to-night.

OPER A HOUSE—TO-MORROW

“BORN RECKLESS.”

Even a gangster can be a hero, if be is born that, way. Such is the theme of “Born Reckless,” the Fox Movietone drama, of gangland which opens to-morrow at, the Hawera Opera House for a season of two nights and a. special matinee on Thursday, and which succeeds in its laudable attempt to portray the gun-toting racketeer of to-day as he really is, a victim of environment rather than of heredity. Edmund Lowe abandons his rough and tumble marine roles to enact the part of “Louis Beretti,” reckless gang leader, an art he makes both entertaining and unusually real. Catherine Dale Owen, the most beautiful blonde of the screen, plays the feminine lead, and Lee Tracy, Warren Hymer, Marguerite Churchill, William Harrigan and Frank Albertson are in the other featured roles. Eddie Gribbon, Paul Page, Ben Hard, Yola D’Avril, Mike Donlin, Roy Stewart, Paul Porcasi, Ferike Boros and other favourites are in the supporting cast, and the whole film is handled in such a way as to reflect extraordinary credit on its makers. John Ford, the director, and James K. McGuinness, the associate producer.

ELTHAM THEATRE,

‘ ‘ THUNDERBOLT. ’ ’

Tense, suspenseful drama, in a setting as intriguing as any ever brought to tlie screen, describes “ Thunderbolt, ” screening at the Eltham Theatre to-niglit. The story captures and vivifies the dramatic incidents that cross the news horizon in the newspapers every day. It goes behind these flitting episodes and brings New York’s negro district, with all its sinister, hidden underworld, on the screen as it actually is. Bancroft portrays the part of a hard-fighting gang boss in love with Fay Wray. The girl repulses Bancroft and in an effort to go straight turns to Richard Arlcn. They fall in love, but Arlen incurs the enmity of Bancroft. Bancroft, the virile he-man of the screen, swears to kill young Arlen, and both are convicted gunmen. They are together in Sing Sing’s death house. Will Bancroft kill the youth? Will he let Arlen be sent to the chair? AVill Bancroft go to the chair? The strange and unusual climax makes the picture.