ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 April 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. The mighty motion picture spectacle of the Eucharistic Congress of Chicago, which will open at the Opera House tonight, shows what is claimed to be the most cosmopolitan gathering ever to be assembled in this country. Among the more than one million persons photographed at this greatest of all religious demonstrations were representatives of 7 different nations from the four quarters of the gtobc. In order to provide for these strange and confusing delegates, special sectional meetings of the Congress were assembled. Twentythree separate groups were gathered together in as many halls in various parts of the city. At these meetings the discussions were conducted in 31 different languages or dialects, ranging all the way from the ancient Latin among the clergy, and the modern Greek of the oriental Catholics, to the musical intonations of the Sioux Indians ami the'guttural gibberish of the Eskimos from Alaska. The services of more than 1000 interpreters were used to aid and direct the vast army of strangers who came down upon the city over-night. At the special meeting for men, held in the huge stadium oil the Chicago lake-front, after nightfall, the J orations were delivered in nine different languages. And that substantial groups of the audience heard and understood the orators was evident from the rounds of applause which, at stated times, echoed through the stands of the amphitheatre. In the great procession which was held on the closing day of the Congress, and which is so strikingly portrayed in the film, almost every race of people in the world are represented in the line of march. Special music will be supplied by the 7th Mounted Rifles ’ orchestra. “FIG LEAA’ES.” Prehistoric monsters and modern beauty, to say nothing of some marvellous technieolour sequences of the Garden of Eden, arc combined in “Fig Leaves,” a Howard Hawks production for Fox Films, which opens a three-day run at the Opera House next Wednesday. Olive Borden and George O’Brien arc ideally cast in the leading romantic roles. This is a story of the trials and mishaps of a modern Eve, who, like her sister of 'the long ago, is tempted when the •serpent. whispers sinister suggestions. In the case of the modern Eve, Miss Borden, as the wife of a plumber, is baited with tine clothes by Andre, a fashionable designer, who dictates the fashions for women. How the beautiful Eve outwits the designer and brings happiness to her household forms the basis for a remarkably well-knit story. Prices, 2s, Js lid and Is. Reserves at Henderson’s.

COSY THEATRE. .Finally to-night is “The Last Man on Earth,” a. mighty imaginative fantasy by John D. Swain, and produced at the Fox Studios. It presents the unique situation of a world suddenly denuded of all men through a strange disease called “masculitis.” For ten years women explorers kept up the search for an adult male, but without success, until a woman stumbled on a hermit living far away from civilisation in the depths of a largo forest. She takes him back and sells him to the nation for £10,000,000. From this point on the story develops a series -of surprises that, prove as amusing as they are thrilling. AVhat would happen to the world if all men were suddenly

swept away by a plague affeeting only those of the proverbial “stronger” sex? AVould women “carry on” the work now performed exclusively by men? AVould they change their form of government, or would, the .present form prove sufficient? These are only a few of the questions inspired by the production, “The Last Man on Earth.” A very interesting programme in support. Reserves, ’phone 1288.