ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 March 1918, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE

EASTER MONDAY AND TUESDAY

A MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC, "THE BARRIER."

Rex Beach's seven-act adaptation of1 his famous book, "The Barrier," will be' shown at the Opera House on Easter j Monday and Tuesday, with a special matinee on Tuesday at 2 o'clock, under the direction of L. J. Carroll. The Barrier is .claimed to establish a new era' in moving pictures. It appeals to all types, all.classes, all ages. It will give the confirmed theatre-goer a new idea • of the possibilities of moving pictures, j Big dramatic moments follow one an-. other breathlessly. Daring, dangerous situations': arise at every turn. The fights are real fights. The struggle for the girl on the banks of the Yukon river is a classic. It stands as the most I desperate and spectacular fight between two men ever filmed. The love scenes of "The Barrier'? have an intensity—' a genuine whole-hearted fervor that will stir the feelings of the most hard- \ ened theatre-gbir.: "The Barrier* follows the book; in every detail arid the result is the finest film seen on the screen for a long time. Seats'should be, reserved at tie Theatre.

Over two hundred Territorials passed through Hawera by the 11 o'clock train, torday for the Wanganui training camp.

"One way to get over the trouble with dazzling lights on motor cars/ said Mr W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston (reports the Standard), "is to .have, a. by-law like they have in Auckland, providing that the light must be thrown on the road'a certain distance in front of the car."

A remarkable event is reported by Mr E C W. Bpusfield, of TeKaraka, who re. cently went overland to Hamilton, via Opotiki (says an exchange). He says that on his return journey he found that in the interim a very high tide had devastated a strip of the coast along the Ohiwa harbor. What had a 1 .few days before been fine pasture for about half a mile from - the beach, had been comA pletely spoiled by the action of an extraordinarily high tide. Hundreds of acres were affected. According to settlers in the locality "it had proved to be the highest tide in the history of the. settlement of the district.

AN APOLOGY

The Suratura Tea Company beg to announce that, owing to the increased demand of the Imperial -Government for large quantities of High-grade Tea, they are reluctantly compelled toaraise the price of their ?'D" Grade Tea 2d per ib... but as soon as the demand eases on the Home markets, the price will be reduced accordingly.—Advt. 25'7'0,1 J 3