ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 2 September 1932, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. “AS YOU DESIRE ME.” Greta Garbo makes her latest appearance on the screen, in the film interpretation of the Luigi Pirandello play, “As You Desire Me.’’ The picture will show finally to-night at the Hawejra ,’Oipera House. Miss Garbo plays the role of a Budapest cafe entertainer whose remarkable resemblance to a woman believed to be dead brings about a dramatic conflict. Melvyn Douglas, who played opposite Gloria Swanson in “To-night or Never,” has the leading' male role as the Italian nobleman, Count Bruno, who accepts Zara, the cafe singer, as the wife whom he believed to have been killed by invaders during the World War, Erich Von Stroheim, enacts the role of Salter, a malignant novelist, who seeks to prevent Zara from wresting free of his grasp. An important role is also filled by Owen Moore as the man who discovers Zara in the cafe and causes her to return as another man’s wife.

An excellent supporting programme including Olympic events is shown.

“MONEY FOR NOTHING.” Seymour Hicks who takes the part of Jeff Cheddar in “Money for Nothing”, coming to the Opera House matinee to-morrow and continuing for a season of two nights, finds himself in.,the uncomfortable position of having given a lady an expensve dinner ad being unable to pay for it. But Fortune smiles on him, and he is. quick to take advantage of her officer. An eminent author sitting at tho next table is signing autographs, and Jeff obtains one at the foot of his bill 1 This is the first of a series of tilts with chance and at each encounter Jeff’s quick wits bring him to the top. Unable to pay for his room the hotel manager keeps his clothes, and he has to leave for London, making his escape from the hotel by the back way, with nothing but his ticket and the. dress suit he stands up in. He arrives in this state at the Winchester the next morning and, standing at tho hotel door in evening dress at 10.30 a.m.,| his black sijk hat in his hand, a passed. by mistakes him for a pavement singer and drops 2s 6d into the upturned topper. This pays for the taxi! Only a little later, strolling across the lounge still in evening dress, he is beckoned by "two women drinking cocktails.* “Waiter,” says one, “this is not a bronx.” Seymour takes the glass and drains it at a gulp. “You’re quite right madam, it is. not’’ is his reply as he walks away! Seats may be reserved at Miss Blake’s; ’phone 2713. G It AN D~THEATRE'. “GUN SMOKE.” “Gun Smoke,” the Paramount picture, starring Richard A.rlen, Mary Brian and William Boyd at the Grand Theatre to-morrow and on Mionday ! nights, provides ail original idea in movie story plots. It concerns the battle of guns, which results when a bunch of gangsters from the city pose as financiers, and go to a little town in Idaho, to hide away until their sinister activities in the metropolis blow over. It is a war to the death, in which gangsters and Westerners 1 have ample.’ opportunity to compare their prowess “shootin’ irons.” I An episode of “Battling with Buffalo B?U” will also ho shown.