AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 14 April 1927, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COS *5 THEATRE. Finally to-night, Pola Negri appears in “Good and Naughty.” Germaine Morris, rich and beautiful, applies for a job in the architectural firm of Gray and West. Hearing that only ugly girls would get the job, she makes hereelf unsightly and wins. Gray is in the middle of an affair with Claire Fenton, a married woman, whose husband gives the firm work. Fenton is tired of married life and looking for a corespondent for a divorce suit. He has almost picked on West when a trip to Florida is suggested. In order that suspicion should be averted from the lovers, West tries to get a girl of his acquaintance, Chouchou, to pose as Gray’s fiancee. She will not, however, and so the drudge of the office decides to take a hand. She makes a startling transformation and the party at the Florida house is full of surprising situations. To make matters worse, Chouchou ’s sweetheart, a prize fighter, arrives in search of her. At the last moment, she decides to go and can only be fitted in as Germain’s maid. The three men, Gray, West and Fenton arc captivated by Germaine and only Gray is really in love with her. Finally Fpnton suggests that as Gray has been in love with his wife, he will divorce her and thus be free himself for Germaine. She resents this and leaves. Back in New York, Gray finds a happy surprise awaiting him. A Gazette, Screen Snapshots and comedy in support. For reserves, ring 1288 after 7 o ’clock. OPERA HOUSE. Undoubtedly “The Bat” is the best guessing game which has reached the stage and screen in many years. It is fulfilling its destiny of entertainment at the Opera House this week, sumptuously and thrillingly. One of the chief reasons for the success of this Roland West motion picture mystery melodrama, from the play by Mary Robert Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, is in its success in persistently challenging audiences to identity the arch criminal behind the stirring trail of mystery, which grows with gripping intensity as the film progresses. Nightly audiences try their very best to fasten identity on the elusive prowler who throws a well-ordered household into a maze of ordeals. Nightly they foil, until events make it clear, because fof tho combined cleverness of authors. producer and sconarioist in masking the culprit with a hedge of baffling clues. The management begs tho audiences not to divulge the identity of “The Bat.” Anyone who intends seeing it would feel like adding another “murder” if a friend insisted on spoiling the peppery melodrama by explaining it beforehand. It is enough to say that doors and windows apparently opened by no human hands, ’shots in the dark, strange gliding, sinister visitors, and a fluttering signal of evil —a bat silhouetted on white walls—excite turmoil that bears, upon even more portenious problems. Splendid programme in support. ’Phone 1048 for reserves.