ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 June 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE “THE GOOD FAIRY” When a young girl, knowing nothing about the so-called “facts of life, , emerges from the seclusion of an orphanage and faces the world alone, many things are liable to happen. •This is conclusively shown in “The Good Fairy,” which is now playing at the Opera House, with Margaret Sul--I'avail and Herbert- Marshall.

In this rollocking story the youthful Margaret is an inmate of an orphanage and leaves when she is selected for a position as an usherette. Her adventures begin at once and she is taken under the protecting wing of an eccentric waiter. He takes upon himself the task of protecting her from the amorous advances of a wealthy meat packer, the “big had wolf” of the picture. Finally, to protect herself from the latter, after he has promised to lavish costly gifts on her, the girl tells him she is married, selecting at random from the telephone book the name of her “husband.”

The meat packer resolves to work through the husband and gives him a position at an enormous salary. Then the complications begin. “The Good Fairy,” in her progress of exciting adventures and good deeds, moves from an orphanage into a movie theatre, and it is there that she conceives the good fairy idea which motivates Molnar’s story and cai’ries her out into the most interesting of backgrounds. The entire story is laid in Budapest, Hungary, and especially interesting are street scenes made at night, with hustling, after-theatre crowds and the distinctively different traffic of a typical Central-European city. Other sequences take place in the motion picture palace and in a beer garden, and there are also interesting glimpses of a large Hungarian department store, where Miss Sullavan and Marshall make their purchases and pursue their romance.

Other scenes, both interior and exterior, are made in a perfect duplication of the Budapest Municipal Orphanage, and still others show various parts of a large hotel of the city. Frank Morgan heads the cast supporting Miss Sullavan and Marshall in “The Good Fairy,” while other important members of Director Wyler’s cast are Reginald Owen, Beulah Bondi, Alan Hale, and June Claywortli.

“THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA.” The screen version of the famous Wallace Smith novel, “The Captain Hates the Sea,” will he the feature attraction on the bill at the Opera House to-morrow and Wednesday evenings. There is a splendid east including Victor MoLaglen, John Gilbert, Walter Connolly, Alison Shipworth, Wynne Gibson, Helen \ inson. Tala Birred, Leon Errol, Walter Catlett, Fred Keating, while Lewis Milestone, noted director of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” was at the megaphone. GRAND THEATRE. “THE SECRET BRIDE.” “The Secret Bride,” is Barbara Stanwyck’s finest dramatic production. Shown for the first time locally at the Grand Theatre on Saturday, and screening finally to-night. Miss Stanwyck’s latest Warner Bros, picture held spectators in breathless suspense and won new laurels for her emotional acting. In “The Secret Bride,” War-

ner Bros, gave the famous screen star every opportunity to display her fine dramatic talent, and she rises to new j heights in her characterisation of aj secret bride of the man who is oblig- I od to prosecute' her own father on a j bribery charge. ’ In addition to unfolding a red lict j romance, the new First National production, “Red Hot Tyres,” which is the second attraction showing finally!:

to-night at the Grand Theatre, depicts some of the most thrilling automobile racing scenes ever shown on the screen. Daredevil stunts performed specifically for the picture by nationally famous racers, and in which six members of the cast participated, caused even the most blase motion picture fan to gasp in amazement. Also showing “The Vanishing ihadow.”