ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 September 1923, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT

"THE BOND BOY/

I Richard Barthelmess, who will be remembered for all time in "'Way Down East/ "Tol'able David," and other high-class productions, offers as | his latest picture "The Bond Boy," at \ the Opera House to-night. Barthelj mess portrays a poor boy who is bound out to the service of a mean farmer. IHe is arrested for ir«yrder of this farj mer, and as a result of his efforts to 'shield the honour of a woman is con- \ demned to hang for a crime he did not . commit. He effects his escape drama(tically, bloodhounds pursue him and ; following a powerful denouement the > story comes to a happy end. The cast lisa big one and includes Mary Thurman and Mary Alden. GRAND THEATRE—TO-NIGHT. "THE CUB REPORTER.'» Patrons of the Grand Theatre tonight will see the latest Richard Tal- j madge production, "The Cub Reporter." ! The story relates the experience of Dick Harvey, a reporter for the Mornf ing Times, who is sent out to get the story about the Sacred Jewel of j Buddha, which came into possession I of an American under peculiar circum- ; stances. He becomes entangled in a j Chinese Tong War, started to regain I the jewel, and has a thousand and one j thrilling ' adventures, regaining the jewel and then finally winning a bride. I Jack Dillon, who directed such suci cesses as Mary Pickford in "Suds" I Bert Lytell in "The Right of Way" and Jack Pickford in "A Burglar by Proxy,'' directed "The Cub Reporter." HAROLD LLOYD IN "DR. JACK."

OPENS AT THE MATINEE MONDAY I AFTERNOON.

I "Laughter holding both his sides!" ; Harold Lloyd, as "Di;, Jack," holds the pulss of laughter of the world. He places the stethoscope of guffaws on the heart of mirth. His medical kit is filled with instruments with which he separI a tea chuckles and smiles from wrinkled brows. ''Dr. Jack is. brought to the home of the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, where lan eminent physician is keeping the girl from health so he can collect his annual fee. When "Dr. Jack" arrives, he upsets the whole household. He .; uses sunshine methods, He makes a ' Kansas cyclone look like, a gust of wind and turns into a three-ringed circus, fftr good measure. In the end he not'only cures the girl, but makes her his patient for life. And- through it all are. comedy situations of a most hilarious nature. He cures a little freckled1 kid from a "serious" illness in a most amazing manner. He turns a poker ■■ game upside down so that when the sho\v-{lovvn comes there is nothing left ( hyt the players,' voices. His acrobatic ride sitting; backwards on the back of a bronco-bucking calf is worth going miles to see. The settings furnish a treat. Harold Lloyd's comedies are well noted for their elaborateness, but he sm'nasses all his previous efforts in j "Dr. Jack." Nearly a dozen big sets I were reorodticed. covering every foot of , the 30,000 foot .dark stage of the Hal ! Roach studio. In fart, the entire production is ahead of the Lloyd standard —a standard of laughter set by the Laughter King. The Hawera season is I limited to two matinees and two evenings. Picture-goers should make a point of seeing it .it afternoon or evening, as it is one of these pictures that is too good to miss.