ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 February 1931, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE “TALKIES.” “ALE’S BUTTON”—TO-NIGHT. No amount of time and expense ha-s been spared in the production of the first talkin'.' picture version of * "All's Button,” which screened to a full Upera House on Saturday night and which will be shown finally to-night. Lavish settings and generous treatment, a galaxy of stars headed by Tubby Edlin and Alf Goddard, and the not overdone interpolation of spectacle and music all combine to honour the famous old original. Reserves may be made at Miss Blake’s, ’phone 2713.

OPERA HOUSE “TALKIES' • ‘' RAFF LES ■' ’ —WED NEJ3 D AY. Ronald Column plays a smooth and polished English gentleman, a society favourite and popular athlete in ins third and latest talking picture, “Raffles,” the mystery thriller which is coming to the Opera House for a season of three nights and a matinee on Thursday. Refined and suave though he may bo, Raffles finds '.he Jure of criminal adventure more than he can resist. In consequence, Us many distinguished associates arc victimised time and again without the faintest suspicion of who the malefactor can hr. Being parallel in theme, “Raffles” is a lit successor to Colman’s two previous successes, “Bulldog Drummond” and “Condemned!” A new force has come into Raffles’ life at the time this modernised version of the famous melodrama opens. The famous amateur cracksman lias given up his obliquities in favour of love, lvay Francis, who gave ;so line a performance opposite Colman’s friend, William Powell, in “Street of Chance,” is the Gwen of the story. She and C'olman play out a touching romance that is an essential part of the play’s high adventure. Reserve at Miss Blake's, ’phone 2713.

BLTHAM "THEATRE

“THE 'GOLD-DIGGERS OF BROADWAY.” “The Gold-diggers of Broadway,” showing at the Eltham Theatre tonight, is one of the most amusing and gorgeous of entertainments over seen on either screen or stage. Its appeal is universal and it sends its audiences away delighted ami happy, humming the tuneful strains they have heard from the screen. Never was dialogue more snappy, pithy and humorous, nor delivered with more skill. The theme songs—“ Painting the 'Clouds with Sunshine,” “Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Ale,” “The Song of the Gold-diggers,” with the dancing chorus, and Ann Pennington’s “Mechanical Man,” anrl “Still They Pall in Love>” are a feature alone worth admission The east is one of the most famous seen in many a moon—really all-star, as the producers claim. Nancy Wolford and Conway Tcarle have the leading roles, while other principal parts are acted by such favourites of stage and screen as Ann Pennington, Broadway’s dancing darling, "Winnie Lightner, the “Tom-boy” of musical comedy, Lilyn Tashman, a travishing blonde from the “Follies,” Albert Gran, Helen Foster, William BakcwelJ, Nick Lucas. They all know how to doliver comedy dialogue so that it s.mps.