ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE, “TALKIES." “CHASING RAINBOWS. ’ ’ Five song hits from the pianos of seven of America’s most popuiar composers provide the tuneful background of “Chasing Rainbows,” the musical extravaganaz which will open at tbe Opera House, Hawera, on Saturday for a season of two nights and one matinee, with Charles King and Bessie Love in the featured roles. “Everybody Tap” fits into a huge dancing ensemble with Miss Love singing ana dancing the gum her with the trained chorus of two hundred boys and girls. “Lucky Me. Lovable You” is the love song sung by Charles King and Miss Love, and “Happy Days are Here Again" is the musical setting for the finale spectacle,' filmed in Technicolour. Lew Alter composed “Love Ain’t Nothing but the blues" with Joe Goodwin, which King uses as a specialty song. I’red Fisher, George Ward and Reggie Montgomery joined in writing “My Dynamic Personality,” in which Marie Dressier scores, included in the supporting cast are Jack Benny, Polly Moran, Gwen Lee, George K. Arthur, Eddie Phillips and Nita Marfan. This is the second appearance of Miss Love and King opposite each other. They first played together in “Broadway Melody.” The plan is now open at Miss Blake’s anc! is ' already rapidly filling.

GRAND THEATRE. “WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH POLE." “With Byrd at the South Pole,” Paramount’, s thrilling picturisatiou o,f the recent Byrd expedition to__the, Antarctic, will be presented at the Grand Theatre. Hawera, this evening, lor a season of three nights and three matinees, with a special children’s matinee to-morrow at 3 p.m. It is tbe first picture of its kind ever photographed. As "shot" by two of Paramount’s ace cameramen, Willard Winder Veer ami Joseph Rucker, it represents the pinnacle yet attained in adventure pict ixres. For by nTeirtness and patient waiting, they have succeeded in telling a storv of great dramatic content, teeming with the intimate details of naan’s life in the face of nature’s almost insurmountable barriers. The moments of tension, of excitement; the hours of work and play, the homely comedy, the almost unbelievable fortitude of men in the face of death, have been effectively and imaginatively transcribed into thrilling, highly dramaticscreen material. From the moment BvrcF and his party establish themselves at their camp (Little America), 2300 miles beyond the last outpost of civilisation, to that thrilling moment when Byrd and Balchen set out in their giant Fokker plane to make the first flight over the South Pole ever attempted hy man. 7With Byrd at the South Pole" remains first and foremost a, picture of vital, vivid action. An added attraction to the programme will depict scenes on and around Mount Foment, including scenes ta.ken at the opening of the Syme Hut.

ELTHAM THEATRE

‘CHARMING SINNERS

“Charming Sinners," a delightful comedy drama, will be shown at the Eltham Theatre to-night. A sparkling, intimate story of married life, beautifully acted by a group of outstanding cinema stars, makes “Charming Sinners” a particularly lively and'"entertaining show. Ruth Chattel-ton as the wise wife, tired of her husband’s philandering, decides to punish him, once and for all. She chooses the dignified method of repaying him in Lis own coin by pretending to a give her affection to an old admirer, William Powell. She fools her husband in clever fashion, reawakens some of the romance which appeared dead to her for ever, and brings about a readjustment in her home which no amount of ranting or scandal could accomplish. Clive Brook, as the husband, reveals new talents in a splendid characterisation. Mary Nolan, as the other woman is delightful.