ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 July 1924, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. If “SATURDAY NIGHT.” a Paramount Cecil De Malle offering, will be screened at the Opera House to-night. The story deals with the fortunes of a young society .girl, Iris Van Suyden, played by Leatrice Joy. The pitfalls of the big city and the harm that a young girl under the wrong influence miglit come to is amply illustrated, and ,Miss Leatrice Joy has never done better work. The rest of the east is a comprehensive one, and includes' Conrad Nagel Edith Roberts and Theodore Roberts. Among the high lights of the pictures are shown scenes of the pleasure haunts of Coney Island and the pleasure houses of Fifth Avenue. A tenement fire of considerable realism is one of the spectacular incidents of the play. Ball scenes, cabaret scenes, and a wreck are also among the interestv?®u!Y?“ ts ° f the story> ‘ * Saturday Night is one of the most up-to-date stones ever produced, and shows up a very interesting side of American life. A matinee will be S iven to-morrow (Thursday). KAPONGA PICTURES. TO-NIGHT— ‘ ‘ MERRY-GO-ROUND. ’ ’ The N.Z. Theatre and Motion Picture Magazine, writing of ‘"‘Merry-go-Round,’’ showing to-night, thus describes it: “It lias all the essentials of a great picture. ‘On with the Motley’ it might be called, for the story is set among the humbler player folk who form the side-shows of Vienna *s Coney Island. The whole production is detailed perfection; even the orangoutang, the hairy death which visits the merciless showman, is wonderfully trained. This picture stands in a class of its own. ’ ’