ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2149, 26 April 1928, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-NIGHT. ; "A MILLION BID." tpiTo h f e +^ h^ have seen Dolorfea Costello in the Master Pictures "The Sea W» or "The Third Degree" will look for great things from her characterisation in "A Million Bid," and bevlf ls^ 0118 ' will be Ratified SvL d most extravagant dreams. Dolores Costello has never naci a part more calculated to bring into vivid emotional reality the possibilities of her genius. The story is that of a girl who is treed by a storm at sea from her husband and her mother, and at last married to the young doctor, whose letters her mother had intercepted. When life goes well with the two, the supposedly drowned husband comes back. He is suffering from loss of memory, and the young surgeon insists that it is his duty to operate on him, in spite of the havoc his returned memory may cause to him, and to his wife and child. The operation is successfully, performed, but with returning memory, something fine awakens in the old man, and, pretending that he does not recognise his benefactors, he wanders out of their lives.

This is but a bare outline of the story thrilling and big and authentic. "Warner Oland, as the old husband, gives one of the most masterful of his -performances. The manly Malcolm McGregor play the young husband with force and charm. Betty Blythe, who will be remembered' as the "Queen of Sheba" in that great spectacle of several years ago, is the frigid, wordly mother in perfection.

FULLERS' REVUE COMPANY,

TO-MORROW NIGHT.

Since appearing in the Empire Theatre three weeks ago the Gayle Wyer Band Box Revue Company has experienced a most successful tour. This combination is now returning southward, being due to open at Fullers' Opera House in Christchurch a week hence. A return visit is being paid to Te Awamutu, and the company will appear at the Empire Theatre to-morow evening. A complete change of programme is announced. The com-edy-revue to be presented is " Married Life," consisting of a .series of highlydiverting situations. All the principals will appear in new characters, and a further series'of entertaining ballets will be supplied by the " Syncopating Steppers." Mr Charles Norman, the principal comedian and eccentric dancer, will introduce more grotesque steps, and will be associated with Mr Sam Ward in comedy sketches. Miss Heather Jones, the company's dainty soubrette, and Miss Elsa Scott, the popular comedienne, will be heard in further numbers. There will be a complete change in scenery and costumes. Nothing of the previous programme will be repeated. Seats may be reserved at Gifford's.

SATURDAY. The world's greatest Western com■'">c •&

edian—Hoot Gibson! This is the title unanimously bestowed • hardriding, Mrd-laughing Western star who is at the Empire Theatre on Saturday in Universale "Galloping Fury." Gibson's story was written by Peter B. Kyne, the famous Western author, and it contains all the thrill of the Western and the laughs of a feature length comedy. It is perfect entertainment, the story being told smoothly and rapid- 1 ly. Laughs are liberally interspersed among the swift actionful moments of the picture. Gibson gives his usual good performance as a skilful horseman, a clever roper, and a twofisted fighting he-man of the plains. Sally Rand is clever in the feminine lead. She is a fine actress, a good rider and last but far from least, very attractive to gaze upon. The entire supporting cast is chosen, with painstaking care; each character fits his part to perfection. Otis Harlan is fine as he always is, while Max Asher adds more delicious moments of comedy as a grotesque cowboy.