ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2191, 2 August 1928, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-NIGHT. Monte Blue, hero of so many rousing dramas, is soon to be seen here in a film that will endear him more than ever to the public. It is "The Bush Leaguer." Monte stars as a modest young Idaho inventor and gas-station owner, who breaks the monotony of life by pitching for the team that has its diamond on the lot adjoining his property. ...... Fate enters in the form or a beautiful motorist who, stopping to have the gasoline tank replenished, so interests the bespectacled youth that he accepts a job on a professional team in her home town, Los Angeles.' What follows is a riot. Monte makes of Specs White a character uproariously amusing and believably human. Clyde Cook and Leila Hyams who supported him in "The Brute," are featured. Others in the cast are William Demarest, Richard Tucker, Bud Marshall, Tom Dempsey. Wilfred North, William Wilson, Violet Palmer and Rodney Hildebrand. Howard Bretherton directed "The Bush Leaguer" for Warner-Master Pictures. The production comes to the Empire Theatre to-night. SATURDAY. "'Won in the Clouds," the Universal aerial melodrama which comes to the Empire Theatre on Saturday, is perhaps one of the greatest air films yet produced. The story itself is one of .the most thrilling tales ever published and the screen version has added tasty bits" of dramatic action that cannot be written. It is a wonderful picture with just the needed amount of love, pathos, dramatic action and comedy interspersed in the plot so as to make a highly interesting entertainment. The opening shot finds Doctor Cecil James with his daughter and her maid travelling through the jungles of Africa in search of John James and a fabled diamond mine. They are taken prisoners by the natives and Portugese Jack, an unscrupulous adventurer who has chai'ge of the mine, and are forced to undergo many hardships. Al Wilson, filmdom's most daring ace, is the star of the picture, while the supporting casit includes such players as Arthur . G. Goebel, winner of the Dole trans-Pacific air race, Helen Foster, George French, Frank Rice, Al Priscoe and many others. Bruce Mitchell directed the picture. "THE PRIVATE SECRETARY." On Monday, 13th August, Te Awamutu playgoers will have the opportunity of seeing the play which is generally considered to be the world's greatest farce-comedy. . When first produced "The Private Secretary" broke all records. Laughter has been called universal coin, and so long as people enjoy clean humour and farcical situations "The Private Secretary" will hold its own. It can be seen again and again—in fact one cannot see all the jokes the first time. The cast chosen from the Otorohanga Operatic Society has won great praise with its work in this ulay, and can be relied upon to provide an excellent evening's enioyment. The fact that the entertainment is in aid pf the Plunket Society assures a bumper house, so patrons «ve advised to book at once at Gifford's. where reserved seats are on sale for 3s.