ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPER A, HOUSE TALKIES

•THE SEA BAT

Considerable interest is being shown in the opening at the Hawera Opera House of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers marine melodrama, “The boa Hat, filmed bv Wesley Haggles on the southern coast of Mexico and m the Bahama islands. • , , ~ , The cast, which includes Roquet Torres, Charles .Bickford, Nils Astlier, in his first all-talking role, and George F. Marion, and includes John Miljan, Boris Karloff, Gibson Gowiand, Edmund Breese. Mathilde Comont and Mack Swain, spent two months on location in Mazatlan seaport of Sinaloa State Mexico, on the Gull ol Can fornia.

The story centres about an ocean mammal filmed for the first time. The sea. bat, from which the production takes its name, is a giant ray, weighin" several tons and with a wing, spread on the ocean of ten feet or more. The bats, known as a constant menace to sponge and pearl divers, populate the waters near Mazatlan. There {is <a goodj -.supporting programme.

GRAND THEATR.EI TALKIES

DANGER OUS PAR ARISE!

Nancv Carroll’s first starring Paramount picture, ‘‘Dangerous paradise, now .showing finally at the Grand Theatre Hawera. to-night is a story of intense love ana gripping adventure.. In fa Sjqkith ‘Sea, inland loicaie, the action moves through climax after clamix, with breathless speed, to a logical but happy ending. Pursued by three villainous men, hunted and 'beaten, but unbroken m spirit, Nancy Carroll flies- to the man she loves, forces him to protect her, and, as lie fights for her, wins liis love, ft is a powerful theme that carries everything before it. It seizes nncl holds the attention. Richard Alien is the leading man, and arner Oland has an important part.

ELTHAAI TALKIES

“TEMPLE TOiAVER

Something new in talkie entertainment will be presented to theatre-goers at the Eiltliam Theatre to-night, when the melodrama “Temple' Tower,' with Kenneth McKenna as “Bulldog Drummond.” This production, instrinsically a spine-chilling melodrama, is also something: entirely different—something that may be best described as sophisticated, lint which is so treated as to enhance the thrills of the story as well as to afford lighter moments. The story deals with jewels, stolen by a. gang of Apaches under the direction of the “Masked Strangler.” The picture begins with an investigation by Captain Drummond, and his friend. Peter Darrell, of some queer happenings at the “Temple Tower” an ancient Elnglish estate. The dauntless adventures, which involve Drnmate preparations Blackton uses to shield himself from visitors, and by a very .personable young lady who also wants to get inside the grim walls of the tower. After an exciting series of adventures,’, which involve Drummond’s near-strangling at the hands of Be Bossu Ma.sque, much clamouring over spiked walls, and thrilling encounters with other members of the gang, there is a surprising outcome in which the real identity of the strangler is revealed. Kenneth McKenna, enacts the role of the sprightly Drummond, with Mareeline Day as the mysterious heroine. The great thrill of the picture is the disclosure of the masked strangler.