ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 July 1921, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT.

Eric Stroheim's wonderful picture, "The Devil's Pass Key," will appear at the Opera House to-night.. The management consider this one of the finest achievements.*^ the screen, "The Devil's Pass Key" V } picture that will sweep you off your ieet. The story presents the eternal triangle with several new. and surprising twists, and a cast" ha j been chosen to interpret'the drama that *' is ideal in every particular. The pan is at the theatre. '

THE GRAND—TO-NIGHT,

"TRUMPET ISLAND."

"Trumpet Island," at the GrandTheatre to-night, is a masterpiece in film production, even as to titles. Gouyerneur Morris wrote the story, and it measures up_to his highest efficiency. Three lives, widely different and each picturesque in its environment, form the basis of the document. One, a young girl, follows a path of roses.'intermingled with thorns. The second, a youth, starts along a rocky road and finds at the end flowers growing among the stones, d^e to the influence of the third way, which is filled with mire, and mud. The love story holds the attention, and keeps one in suspense. Comedy' is introduced at various points to colour the production. I

ROSEMARY REES ENGLISH! COMEDY COMPANY.

"THE AMATEUR ADVENTURESS •»

The laughter-laden comedy, ''The Amateur Adventuress," will be presented on Thursday at the Opera House by the Rosemary Rees English Comedy Coy. Written expressly to

cause mirth, the dialogue is of the rapid fire order and the comedy situations overlap each other, so quickly do they develop during the unfolding, of the merry story. Mistaken identity forms the base of the plot, in fact a.l laughing successes depend to the greatest extent on the mistaking of one character for some other person. In Miss Rosemary Rees' merry adventure the principal character buys the name or" a trading concern and poses as the title of the firm in proporia peri sona. It looked easy to do this at | first- It simply meant to pretend that someone else's name was one's own- ! jTo the person who generally feels al- | I most incapable of. telling, a lie such a i ! dual' existence soon becomes a night- ' mare, and as the story progresses, to | support a series of misstatements taxes ! the most clever exponent of perjury, 1 and soon makes matters intolerable for the poor individual who thought it so easy, but is only an amateur in the adventures line: The best of the humour lies in the fact that the.audience ;is in tne Joke all the time- The story 'of "The Amateur Adventuress" is told in three sparkling acts. The principal ' characters in the play are: Mrs Beamish (Rosemary Rees), Sarah O'Kelly I (Katie Towers), Owen Freeland (Harold , Moran), Thomas Peak)/George Broad) i Martha Long (PameTla Wilson), Jimmy ' Arbuthnot (Cecil EncourE), William Boggs (Gregory Lawson), Lady Arbuthnot (Nora King), and Mary Seebold (Bella Napier). The box plan is : now open at Donnelly's. On Wednes- ' day, Somerset Maughan's fine comedy :of London life,. "The Mouse," will be ' presented. i -^