ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 26 October 1917, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE OPERA HOUSE

! ANITA STEWART AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN TO-NIGHT. ; Anita Stewart, who will appear tonight at the Opera House, has won a high place in filmdom. Attention was first drawn to her probable success in picture acting through the. use of her beauty m calendars and pictorial lithography. Her success was almost instantaneous and her future contains still mora fame. "Clover's Rebellion" is featured as one of her best plays, and will be shown for the first time at the Opera House to-night, in conjunction ; with Charles Chaplin's latest and fast i ,est production, <(The Rink," where! Charlie fastens skates of the roller per- i suasion to his quaint feet, and performs ! miracles of all kinds. The management I draws attention to the noted attraction1 "Intolerance" and "The Battle of the I Anere," ivhieK appear at an early date A matmee will be given to-morrow1 (Saturday). i ''INTOLERANCE— WORLDS WONDER PICTURE. "Intolerance," D. W. Griffith's colossal spectacle and his first and only production smce "The Birth of a Nation," will be shown for the first time in Hawera on Monday and Tuesday evenings, with a matinee on Tuesday at two o'clock, under the management of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. A leading journal wrote of "Intolerance" as fol-lows:--"The purpose of this picture is to trace a universal theme through various periods of the race's history. Ancient, sacred, mediaeval and modern times are included in its scope. There are four separate stories, each with its own set of characters. The modern story is laid in a Western American city of the present time. It shows the baneful workings of intolerance upon the people. The story of the sacred time is laid in Judaea, A.D. 27. Jerusalem is the scene of the intolerance of the RoI man law. The ancient story depicts the j destruction of the greatest civilisation f of antiquity--the treason growing out of the intolerance of Babylon's hi°h priest of Baal. In mediaeval times the scourge of intolerance swept over France, which suffered four civil wars within a decade. Even this limited resume shows that words cannot give an adequate idea of the massive sweep of this stupendous production. One must see its wonders to have any conception of its mighty thrill. The "box plan is at P. T. Donnelly's, and seats should be reserved.

WORLD'S PICTURES.

"THE ADVENTURER" AND "LIBERTY" TO-NIGHT.

'The Adventurer" is a dramatisation r, , f? mous novel hy Upton Sinclair. It stars Marion Swayne, one of the most dramatically effective artists on the screen. The story is written around the attemprs of three men to swindle an institution formed by a millionaire, who let t his wealth for the benefit of man•m , -c three swindlers forge a will disinheriting the two Adams children, loung Adams decides on a novel way to beat them. He discovers a dead body, changes the clothes and lets the impression go abroad that he is dead. Atter a series of remarkable happenings he eventually brings the swindlers to justice. The opening chapter of the wonder serial "Liberty" will again be screener with the startling exploits of tAldie Polo, m his daring attempt to rescue "Liberty," captured by the Mexican banait*. Eddie Polo plays the faithrul Mexican servant, fierce fighter, and real man. Marie Walcsmp, the favorite ot thousands, plays the part of Liberty Horton, for whose-hand a Mexican and an American captain are rivals. Other pictures will be a Ditmar education picture a cub comedy, and the Australian Gazetto, showing N.Z. troops inarching through Sydney. The same programme will be shown to-morrow afternoon an-1 evening. Musical selections will be rendered by the World's orchestra