ENTERTAINMENTS.
STRAND AND FRANKTON THEATRES One of the most dramatic films of the season is on display this week at the above theatres. “Sailors’ Wives,” a First National feature, in which Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes play the leading roles, should be one of the most popular productions shown in recent years. Based on the sensational novel of the same name by Warner Fabian, “Sailors’ Wives” deals with a highly dramatic incident in the life of a girl who plunges into a whirlpool of hectic living in order to forget her impending doom, and to crowd a lifetime of excitement into the few remaining months in which she may keep her sight. The popular Buck Jones also appears to-night in a thrilling story, taken against nature’s beautiful background of California.
Last year a resident of lonely Aituta'ki visited Auckland and took back with him a five-valve set. During the five long months when no steamer calls at the island he found the set a boon without price, for through it he was in constant nightly touch with New Zealand, Australia, and America, and the handful of whites gathered regularly at his house to “hear the world.” Now other sets are to go down with the first boat of the season, and soon a receiver will be as much in demand in the islands as is a mosquito net,
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 8
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