ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 6 September 1932, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. “OA'ER THE HILL.” “Over the Hill” opens to-niglit at the Hawera Opera House for a season of two nights. A notable feature of the production is that it brought back Mac Marsh, who retired from the screen twelve years ago. The other stars who form the cast of the Fox picture are James Dunn and Sally Filers. “Over the Hill” is a drama of home life, the story of a family as it grows from childhood to manhood. There are some moving sequences in the film, but sentiment lias not been allowed to dominate the- production, and ..there are some uproarious scenes ■enacted, all of which are appreciated all the more because of the appeal of the more solemn passages. The story opens with the family going to school, all of the three boys with strikingly different temperament. Isaac, the eldest, a parsimonious'' but deceitful youth, who is ever ready to “tell tales” ; Thomas, the rascal, and Johnny, the inoffensive, upon whose head descends the trouble caused by his two brothers. Alae Marsh is the hardworking mother, who- is constantly struggling to keep the home- together, with a husband who won’t work. Nearly all the scenes of this section of the film are humorous. The years roll by. The family has grown up. Isaac is parsimonious and dishonest still; Johnny, having suffered for other people in his childhood, has still to suffer for the wrongdoing of others, but he lias developed a heart of gold and a will of steel, and the dramatic climax is his settling with Isaac. Seats may be reserved at Aliss Blake’s shop; ’phone No. 2713.

“SHE AVANTED A AIILLTONAIRE.’ ’ “She AVanted a Millionaire,” the Fox film featuring Joan Bennett as winner of the Atlantic City beauty contest and Queen of the Quat’z Arts' Ball, in Paris, with Spencer Tracy as the deserving hometown sweetheart who finally convinces her that luxury does not spell happiness, will be the next featured attraction at the Opera House. It will be shown at the matinee on Thursday and on Thursday evening, and on Friday at the Grand Theatre. The supporting cast is headed by Una Merkel, James Kirkwood and Dorothy Peterson.