ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4386, 6 March 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. “ ALMOST A HUSBAND." Will Rogers’ new Gpldwyn picture, “Almost a Husband,” which appears at the Central Theatre to-night, is the picturization of the novel, " Old Ebenezer,” by Opie Read. It is the sympathetic story of the rise of a bashful country ■school teacher to the position of respect and affection in the little village of Old Ebenezer. At the end of the story Sam Lyman wins the love of the town’s most beautiful girl. WEDNESDAY NIGHT. “ FORBIDDEN FRUIT." -Cecil B. De Millie’s superb Paramount super-production, “Forbidden Fruit,” which will be the feature on Wednesday night', decidedly marks an era in motipn picture production. It is a stupendous photo-play, and of such excellence as to entitle it being termed a masterpiece of which any producer might well, be proud. The story is embellished by a vision of Cinderella, in which Mr De Mille’s genius is displayed to the finest advantage. It is colourful, strongly effective, and produced on a scale of magnificence and unexampled even in this day of stupendous product),ons. Agnes. Ayres, the leading woman player, is a suffering wife, living in a tenement. Clarence Burton, a gambler and crook, plays the role of her husband, and Theodore Roberts is an oil king who has a’n important part in shaping the girl’s career. The story was written by Jeanie Macpherson.

THF REAL CIRCUS AND i MENAGERIEI THURSDAY, MARCH 16. A real travelling menagerie, with its four ponderous elephants, lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, jackals, polar bears, brown,and grizzly bears, monkeys, etc. A real circus, with real ring horses and performing ponies, horses in liberty acts, and horses in menage acts, all young and blue-blooded, performing 'elephants, trained lions and tigers. A circus and menagerie that takes three trains to convey it from place to place. SucK a circus is that owned and personally conducted by the. Messrs Wirth Bros.. whose home is Australia. It is Australia’s representative show, org'anised*by the present owners in Sydney in 1880. Years of travel and expert enee. It has twice travelled the world, the only circus in the world to accomplish this feat. It has met opposition in strange lands, and has always come out victorious. The proprietors have travelled round the globe a dozen times seeking novelties and sensations.. They have been everywhere, seen everything, and got everything worth having, their vast experience teaching them the wants of the public, and they spare no expense in satisfying their needs. Each year this huge circus has grown and improved, until now it is one of the greatest amusement institutions under the sun:.there are only two other travelling circuses in the World that can compare with this immense aggregation, whose towering stature throws its mighty shadow on all others, and envelopes them in the dim twilight of the commonplace. It is indeed a huge concern, employing nearly 200 hands, 80 horses, and scores of dens of animals, its huge marquee, capable of holding -5000 persons, is covered in throughout, and is both wind and water proof, and has thousands of yards more canvas in its construction than all other shows in Australia combined. Its roof this year is a veritable nett work of aerial riggings, on which perform theyery best aerialists the world has ever seen. The circus will perform at Paeroaon Thursday, March 16, one night only.