ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1425, 10 November 1923, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TO BE SCREENED TO-NIGHT. “ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT.” Herbert Rawlinson is the star at the Empire Theatre to-night (Saturday) in a unique offering. “One Wonderful Night” was successful as a stage play, but its success does not end there. The famous Louis Tracey story has lent itself to the screen in a remarkable degree in this Universal version. “If you had nothing else to do would you marry a beautiful girl simply to oblige her?” That ie one of the fascinating questions that make this play easily one of the most intriguing in which Rawlinson has ever appeared. Into the space of a single night is crowded adventure, romance and mystery. Rawlinson’s agreeable personality has not been seen in a more suitable vehicle. He catches the interest instantly and holds the audience’s sympathy as a young American adventurer home from five years spent in China, who falls into a mad night of adventure in New York that eclipses all his foreign travel in thrilling experiences. Lillian Rich does excellent work in the role opposite Rawlinson, while Dale Fuller, who became famous for her work in “Foolish Wives,” contributes ' a delightful characterisation.

WEDNESDAY NEXT

“THE COWBOY AND THE LADY.”

Tom Moore as Teddy North, the “dude” rancher, in “The Cowboy and the Lady,” in which Mary Miles Minter and he play the leading poles, has some difficult tussles with Cupid before he attains the prize, according to advance information concerning the picture, which will be shown at the Empire Theatre on Wednesday night. Meeting Jessica Weston, with whom he is immediately impressed, North goes out and proclaims to his cattle: “I’m in love, gentlemen—madly, desperately in love with the most wonderful girl in the world.” What the cattle replied isn’t recorded. Later, feeling that the fact she is married is a bar to honest love, he tries to drive the distracting girl from his thoughts. But the love god is not to be cheated of his legitimate prey and by means of an accident, and later, a tragedy which frees the girl and brings them closer than ever the bonds of mutual danger and sympathy wins his point. Mary Miles Minter is the delightful heroine of “The Cowboy and the Lady.”