ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 July 1921, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

p j OPERA HOUSE-TO-NIGHT. bj "BROADWAY AND HOME." p j 3 i v "Broadway and Home" is a' picture 3 with a certain moral conviction. It f shows how a man_may be taught to 7 realise bitterly that "all that glitters - is not gold/ tells how a fisherman's - son, in accordance with his great desire, went to live in New York, y whither he went to learn painting _ under a great artist. The stlory is an _ attractive one, and is set in a very I appropriate atmosphere. The popular 1 serial "King of the Circus" will be B shown. rl t i ROSEMARY REES' ENGLISH » j ■ COMEDY CO. t "THE AMATEUR ADVENTURESS." Miss Rosemary Rees will , commence - her two-nights' season on f Thursday - evening with her new Englfeh Comedy ; Company in tlfe three-act farce^comedy, "The Amateur Adventuress/ at * the Opera House. Comedy is ever c welcome. The theatre is best loved s as the home of laughter. Nowadays 7 the most popular form of entertain-' - nient is farce comedy. It has taken p the place of revue and of the drama. s "The Amateur Adventuress" is above } the ordinary farce comedy, as* in adV dition to crisp dialogue and laughter- » creating -situations, which follow quick- - ly one on top of the other, it has a I clear, coherent story running through i with a strong vein of sentiment, which j serves as a distraction from the ever- ) recurring laughs. The company carry I art drapery to fit any stage. Hawera j will get the same scenery as Wellington V- The cast deludes a powerful combination of artists who have been ■; specially selected from England and . the Antipodes. Supporting Miss Rpsemary Rees there are j Miss Katie lowers, Bella Napier, Kora King, Nio Marsh, Pamela Wilson. Harold Moran, : j Gregory Lawson, Cecil Encourt, and j George Brad. The company can only , j appear on Thursday and Friday even- , ings, as their forward dates have been arranged and they are due for : their Wellington season in a few weeks. The box plan is now open at ! P. T. Donnelly and Co.'s. I J On Friday nijrht "The Mollusc," jby Somerset Maughan, will be the j comedy presented. KAPONGA PICTURES. "Trumpet Island," showing to-mor- { row. night, interpreted by an all-star j cast, is the greatest nroduction ever produced by the Vitagraph Company. An aeroplane accident in a terrific thun- ! derstorm, a fight for life and the girl j on the cliffs are but two daring epij sodes in the feature. The supporting ■j items include a comedy and a Pa the Gazette with views of many interesting places-and people. x ■ °