ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2285, 26 March 1929, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE THEATRE, TO-NIGHT. , “ZERO.” A question that has oft-times been asked and has formed the basis of many a story is the query whether the past can be sent into oblivion. In Collinson Owen’s great story, “Zero,” exciting dramatic circumstances arise through a man who believes that he can commence life afresh with the past completely forgotten. This book has been made the basis of one of the most thrilling photoplays ever produced by a British company. “Zero” will be coming to the Empire Theatre to-night. The part of the man who desires to start life anew is played, by the popular favourite Stewart Rome, whilst Fay Compton, the great stage and screen star, is in the leading feminine part. WEDNESDAY NIGHT. JOHN BARRYMORE IN “THE TEMPEST.” This story of rich romance in Red Russia, directed by Sam Taylor, is Barrymore’s first modern film. “Tempest,” acclaimed the wide world over as John Barrymore’s greatest screen masterpiece, will bring America’s most distinguished actor to the Empire Theatre on Wednesday night in a romance of vital, human and allpowerful appeal. It is a stupendous drama revealing love’s great conflict in the hearts of a red-blooded peasant and a blue-blooded princess, vividly portrayed against the dramatic background of stormy, revolutionary, violent Red Russia. Most ably supported in this remarkable picture, John Barrymore has the co-operation of Camilla Horn, the talented German actress who was recently discovered and taken to America by Joseph M. Schenck. Miss Horn veritably lives her characterisation of Princess Tamara, in all the regal splendour and magnificence of the Imperial Russian Court, and as the beloved of Barrymore, a peasant officer. Camilla Horn will long be remembered for her outstanding screen success as Marguerite to Emil Jannings’ Mep'histo in “Faust” tnd sensational UFA production. Louis Wolheim excellently looks after the lighter comedy relief, so essential in a tense, gripping, soul-stirring story of the calibre of “Tempest.” THURSDAY NIGHT. “THE SEA URCHIN.” Coming to the Empire Theatre on Thursday night is the Master Picture release, “The Sea Urchin,” an English production written and directed by Graham Cutts, and starring Betty Balfour and George Hackathorne. Not only are there laughter and tears, humour and pathos, but thrills. Thrills in “Windy Willie,” a most respectable | aeroplane except to its master, George Hackathorne. This poor aviator has most brilliant starts, but - when it comes to finishing—he generally lands upside down ‘or in the wrong situation —like a market place in France, for instance. You can’t afford tb miss this Master picture so full of laughter.