ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 January 1931, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

•THE WOMAN RACKET Gangster rule and gay night clubs of New York figure vividly m “The Woman Racket’' JMetro-Goidivyn-May-er’s story of the Gay White Way, which will show at the Grand theatre, Hawera to-night and finally to-morrow, witli Tom Moore and. Rlaiiche Sweet playing in their first talking picture together. . , ....... The story is a love ta-io set m the midst of . New York’s night life with Moore as an Irish policeman on the Broadway beat, and -Miss Sweet as a night club hostess. OPERA HOUSE TALKIES. “MAN TROUBLE.” Dorothy Mackaill, Milton Sills, Kenneth Mac Kenna and Sharon Lynn appear to advantage in the leading roles of “Man Trouble,” Fox Movietone all talking romantic drama, that opened n V the Opera. House. Hawera, yesterday and will be shown finally to-mght. 1 hey were ably supported by a cast of screen notables that includes Roscoe Karas Oscar Apiel, James Bradbury, jj. Harvey Clark. Rdytue Chapman and Lew Harvey.. . Tlie story, sustained m its intense situations, deals with the struggles ol a yoinm man and a beautiful girl, wlio, after they have fallen in love, discover themselves menaced by a night clul) owner who has a claim upon the .nt Aided by circumstance', they outwit the tyrant and are free to continue their romance. We believe tins picture, adapted from one of Ben Ames Williams’ stones, is one of the most brilliantly .interesting and dramatically entertaining yet te reach the all-talking screen, thanks to Director Bertiiold Viertel. Seats may be reserved at Muss Blake’s, ’phone 2713.

“WHOOPEE” TO-MORROW

Eddie Cantor, star of ’ Whoopee,' the Samuel Goldwyn-Florenz Ziegield musical riot, which comes to the Opera House, Hawera, to-morrow at 2 p.m. for a season of three nights and! three matiness, has a theory that an actoi can usually count on giving a better performance in front of the microphone for a talking picture than lie can op tlie stage. “Whoopee” was his first full-length talking picture to. test this theory. ‘Haven’t I an imagination?, be asks when reminded that there is no stimulation from an audience, such as an actor usually counts on. Can t. T just see the crowd before me? Can t T hear applause? And anybody who ever triecl to be funny in front of an audience which has gone cold on you—and that happens to everybody—ought to know that the audience and! the applause you can imagine for yourself is a lot more reliable than a theatre-furi of people who mav or may not be m the right mood. With my imagination T have tlie best kind of audience made to order for me ius the way I like it ” Seats for “Whoopee” may bo reserved at Miss Blake’s.