TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 June 1933, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

OPER A HOUSE. . “A SUCCESSFUL CALAMITY” “A. Successful Calamity,” showing at tiie Hawera Opera Hons© to-night and finally to-morrow, stats the incomparable George l Arlis-s. The story deals with a wealthy man whose family has drifted away from him due to outside interests. An accpideaital meeting between his !son and his own greatest enemy in Wall Street results in a financial' stroke that enhances the family fortune by millions, while_ het was telling them how poor he was". The situation is productive of much drama and comedy, and is made doubly interesting by tli® work of the supporting cast. Mary Astor appears in ‘‘A Successful Calamity” as the beautiful and charming wife who is so busy that she has no time for her husband. Bvalyn Kna.pp and William Jaoiney appear as children, who are too busy to devote much time 1 to domestic life. Grant Mitchell is a faithful butler who. gives his millionaire employer the valuable hint about keeping his family together and also loans him 3QOO dollars. There is a well-balanced supporting programme. Seats may be reserved at Miss Blake’s.

GRAND THEATRE!.

“NAGANA” AND “SPURS’.’ In the Universal drama “Nagana” the exotic Viennese beauty, Tala Birell, lives up to all the complimentary expressions regarding her beauty, her ability, and a certain strange quality which immediately sets her' apart from other motion picture players. Judged by her work in “Nagana,” she can hold her own with any actress ever imported from abroad by America. Me'lvyn Douglas, in the lea-ding male role, is unusually good in his part,, as is also Onslow Stevens, whose brief role is one which remains in the memory. “Nagana,” which -screens finally tonight at the Grand Theatre, is a- thrilling love romance with a. background presenting the picturesque interior of the Dark Continent as few pictures ‘have done. No picture 'lias presented more thrilling wild animal sequences, and when a hundred ferocious bea-sts, including lions, leopards and panthers, are confined in a single flimsy lialboiratory erepted in a native village, there follow hair-raising scenes which mustbe -seen to be appreciated. The second feature at the Grand Theatre to-night is the favourite Hoot Gibson in his latest„thriller “Spurs,” which is a new kind of western picture. Chap tor S of “Air Mail Mystery” also shows on the same programme.