TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

OPERA HOUSE.

“BY CANDLELIGHT.”

When a. butler and a maid masquerade under the names of their titled employers, almost anything can happen, especially if the real Prince is a notorious philanderer and the Countess is at tjie moment one of the objects of his wandering affections. “By Candlelight,” Universal’® Continental comedy by Siegfried Geyer, which will screen to-night and on Monday at the Opera House, Hawera, presents just such a situation, with Eflissa Landi and Paul Luka® co-starring in the roles of maid and butler. In the story, the pair strike up an acquaintance aboard a train travelling from Vienna to Monte Carlo. Circumstances cause each to 'believe that the other is a member of the nobility, and each servant is correspondingly thrilled at tiie prospect of a romance with a person of noble rank. In Monte Carlo, during the Prince’s absence from bis luxurious apartment, the masquerading, butler entertains the attractive maid, who calls' at the apartment dressed in a beautiful evening gown belonging to her 'royal mi,stress. The evening is proceeding nicely when the Prince unoxpected.lv returns, entering the room wearing the butler’s coat and bearing champagne and an elaborate candelabra bv the light of which lie. himself nlwyas carries on his lovemaking. This - gay comedy was directed by James Whale, who is masterful in directing situations of this type a,s 'he demonstrated n “The Kiss Before the Mirror,” and the cast appearing in support of Miss Landi and Lukas includesi such oiayeis as Nils Asther, Eisther Ralston, Lawrence Grant, Dorothy Revier, and Lois January. Seats may he reserved at Miss Blake’s, ’phone 2713.

GRAND THEATRE

DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME

Fast action is provided by Tom Mix in his second talking photoplay “Rider of Death Valley,” to be screened as the Grand Theatre to-night and on Monday. In this, picture Mix is the he-man hero of a. beautiful girl whom circumstances have sent into a treacherous desert with equally treachero js companions—all in search of a fort me in gold. Charming Lois. Wilson is Lie girl and Fred Kohler and Forrest Stanley enact the villains of the <n-o-aeing story. Tonv. the, famous hor.se is °as usual', very much in evidence m the Western star’s film adventures. The second attraction, “SOS lcebere.” is a film which resulted from month’s polar expedition which Universal sent into arctic Greenland under the leadership of Dr. Arnold p a nek the noted outdoor screen producer. ‘ The 38 members of tins hazardous excursion braved the perils or the’ North and endured counties® hardships and mrivations to make this film possible. Naturally, its most outstanding feature is the great beauty of the icelands, and the spectacular nrtic phenomena which it records °n film and in sound as well for the first time, but in addition to this Iceberg” tells a tense, dramatic storv of a Tost scientific expedition and their struggle to exist while stumbling toward civilisation. With the wl w? world searching for their party aid tlieir number increased by the dauntless flying wife of one of its members, the expedition is rescued in the. very niek of time by an intrepid aviator. Chapter 10 of “The Lost Special will also he shown.