ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 February 1931, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

“ALL QUIET” FILM. OPERA HOUSE SEASON. At last the motion picture of the neatest book “All Quiet on the Western Front” has been completed. Ibe critics say it is the greatest motion jneture ever made. This wonderful t niversal production of Rermarques ianions novel has required a year © painstaking labor and expenditure of more than £200,000. For example, miles ot actual trenches had to be dug and foitifieri for the sweeping battle scenes. It is not only the story of the ‘ other side,” it is the story of every army. It is the story of youth—in love with life —in ’love with love-laughing, sinning repenting. You will love its darimr drama, its faithfulness its utter truth You, as soldiers, will see yourselves once again marching over the shell-torn roads ol : France mud-covered, weary, with the din of battle ringing in your ears. “All Quiet on the M e.s ern Front” will open at the Opeia House on Tuesday for a season, of luo nightsu Reserve at Miss Rlalc- s, phone 2713 1 .

OPERA HOUSE, TALKIES

TO-NIGHT —‘ ‘ON APPROYAL. ’

Brilliant and witty dialogue is unlimited in the B.D.F. super comedy, “On Approval,” showing at the Opera House to-night, where it is > givmg the citizens of Hawera the year s u oust or best attack of hysterics. Containing the same, laughter-making quaitet of “Rookery Nook” fame, Tom Walls, Winifred! Shotter, Robertson Hare and Mary Brough, with the additions of two more well known British sous, Edmund Breon and Yvonne. Arnaud. “On Approval” has been adjudged by motion picture critics, and the severest critics of all,, the general public a* beino- the finest comedy film evei io crraee the precincts of a talking picture theatre. When two society women one a temperamental widow and! the other a sophisticated young miss, deside. as a sure method of testing their prospective husband’s merits, to take them away “On Approval, to the widow’s country seat m Scotland humorous situations must arise. What occurs in Scotland and the final outoome of this curious experiment is veil wortr a visit to the theatre where this mighty British; triumph is being screened Reserve at Miss Blake s, phone 2M 3.

GRAND THEATRE “TALKIES,”

“WOMEN EATERY WHERE.”

The turbulent life of a French Moroccan edtv with .Rs motlev. crowds, of natives. Legionaire.s, Spahis, sailois and civilians, furnishes the picturesque background for much of the action m “Women Everywhere,” Eox Movmtone musical romance, showing at the Gi Theatre, commencing .to-morrow nlght for a season of two nights. J- Haloid Murray and Fifi Dorsay are featured in the picture, which was dnecitcd by Alexander Korda.