ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

4 | OPERA HOUSE. |

MISS DAISY JEROME. Miss Daisy Jerome made her final appearance at the Opera House last evening. Owing to the holiday season and the absence of many peoDle from the town the attendance was" not as large as would have been attracted in normal times by an artist who has gained such distinction as Miss Jerome, but every item was keenly enjoyed and was followed by hearty applause. Miss Jerome showed wonderful versatility, and her power to present different characters enabled her to surpass the powers of a whole company to entertain The picture programme was keenly appreciated, esoecially "The Single Track." * I i

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT.

"SONNY." ( Richard Barthehness, star of Tol'able David," pronounced as one or the best three pictures of the season, will be seen again at the Opera House to-night in his latest First National, ottering "Sonny," an adaptation of the stage play by George Hobart. The story centres round about the complications ensuing, when GeoTge Peters, a. billiard-room keeoer, returning from •■ the war to find himself taken foriSonny Crosby, who was killed in France. Sonny happened to be the last word.in money and blue blood. Joe wouldn't have taken the job. for anything.' but there was Sonny's blind mother looking for the return of her boy. Simple characterisation and intensely human appeals are the oustanding features of a story of unusual dramatic interest. j Prices remain as usual.

THE GRAND THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW . NIGHT (FRIDAY AND SATURDAY).

There's no comedy drama about "The Trouper." the Universal attraction at the Grand Theatre, starring Gladys Walton. Gladys Walton, so I long seen in straight comedy-dramas, stepped out of her fascinating shell of prettiness and created a real figure on the screen in "Second Hand Rose. " j Her portrayal of "The Trouper" is equal to it if not greater. It is emotional, intense in its pathos and wistfulness. And yet throughout the picture every sequence is dominated by / some comedy, burlesque usually of ye I ancient and honorable traditions of the stage. The whole story is a satire of barn-storming road companies and penniless' players in "pressing" situations.

KAPONGA PICTURES.

"Reported Missing," Owen's Moore's • great comedy-drama, showing to-mor- . row nirrht. is just pure entertainment j and nothing else—entertainment of the highest quality—mixture of comedy, I slapstick, budesque and melodrama, , cleverly wrought into a consistent t story. The only fault ever found with ! it was that it created too much laughter.