TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 April 1934, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

GRAND- THEATRE. “SOLITAIRE MAN.’* Screen followers of Herbert Marshall are in for their greatest treat when they witness his performance in “The Solitaire Man,” sensational drama ot life among Continental crooks, written by Bella anti Samuel Spewack. The film screens at the Grand Theatre finally to-night. In addition to Marshall’s performance, a notable supporting; cast contributes much to the picture. Elizabeth Allan, in the feminine lead, is given the greatest dramatic role of her screen pareer so- far. Lionel Atwiil gives another one of his effective “scalp tickling” performances as menace to the entire cast. Aristocratic dignity is contributed by May Robson in nor role as an English dowager who helps to dispose ox stolen jewels. Hilarious cornedv is provided by Mary Boland, as much needed “relief” during dramatic scenes. Ralph Forbes is outstanding as a. shell-shocked war veteran who gives his life to protect a friend. Lucille Gleason and Robert MoWade are entertaining in their comedy scenes during lighter moments in. the picture. An excellent supporting programme will also be presented. Seats may be reserved at (Miss Blake’s.

OPER A HOUSE “ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC” SIR HUBERT WILKINS Sir Hubert Wilkins will make a personal appearance at the Opera House Hawera, to-morrow afternoon and evening to present and describe his remarkable film “Arctic and Antarctic.” Sir Hubert bring® with 'him his own motion picture record of the many remarkable episodes in his career, and in a vivid and compelling manner tells the story of his amazing adventures. The record of this remarkable man is an unusual one. Into Ms Id years he has crowded more than most men. He was in Steffansen’s expedition to the Arctie, the British Imperial expedition to the Antarctic, -Shackleton’ s Quest “expedition, and in .1928 Eilson and he made their great flight from Alaska over the North Pole to Spitzbergen; incidentally the first trans-Atlantic flight. (J'nei of his most spectacular exploits was the voyage in the submarine Nautilus to the Arctic. He has just returned to New Zealand from the Lin-coln-Elisworth expedition to the Antarctic. Sir Hubert tells a thrilling and compelling story of his amazing adventures, illustrated graphically by motion pictures, and his vivid personality holds children and adults alike enthralled. The box plans are at Miss Blake’s Sweet Shop.

“WALTZING MATILDA.” “Waltzing Matilda',” in which Pat Hanna seizes numerous opportunities to raise roars of laughter, will be presented at the Grand Theatre to-morrow and Monday nights. Comical dialogue, ridiculous situations, and an essentially funny plot that runs parallel with a pretty romance, are combined in a story that is told amid settings of unusual beauty. Most of the action takes place on an Australian sheep station “as large as Belgium,” but the audience is conveyed to urban and coastal localities, so that an interesting variety' of scenes is presented. The peculiar qualities of the Australian scene are exploited with great success. The characters which move across the screen are true to their background, except in the case where they make a ludicrous contrast. Pat Hanna and his friend, Joe Yalli, are inhabitants of a Melbourne boardinghouse, who, the morning after “visiting a. brewery 7 ’ ’ and getting into a scuffle with a stranger, read in a newspaper that a constable had been seriously injured in a street fight and the detectives expect to make a prompt arrest. They take alarm and leave “on the tr arn P-” They are given a. job on a, station, and incidentally meet, the girl in the plot. But their obsession that they are the victims of a man hunt is not dissipated until near the end of the picture, when everything is cleared up, greatly to their advantage. Hanna, has ample opportunities for his special brand of humour when his clumsy, untidy, uncouth figure is introduced into the drawing-room of the homestead. Chapter 3 of “Clancy of the Mounted” will also be presented.