ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4468, 18 September 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. PARDON MY NERVE. Charles Jones, the William Fox ■star, proves to be the right sort in his latest picture “ Pardon -My Nerve,” which is to be screened to-hignt. Jones, as Racy Dawson, wandering cowboy, finds that Molly Dale (Eileen Percy) has trouble coming lher way from several points of the compass. As a side issue he takes up the woes of Marie (Mae Bush). The two combined keep him. on the jump—but he jumps so fast that low-down gamblers who finally finish Molly’s father get somewhat cross-eyed with apxiety watching him; and after many interesting situations and several amusing touches he puts them where the? will not bother him, or MolJy, or Marie any more. MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS! COMING TO PAEROA. Many cornic operas have enjoyed popularity, but few : —if any—to the same extent as "The Maid of the Mountains,” to be staged at the Central Theatre on Thursday next, 21st inst. Its four years’ run at Daly’s Theatre (London), and its six mbnths’ in Melbourne and five in Sydney, h,ave placed it upon a pedestal of popular approval from which it will be a long time before it is displaced. It may be said to be the only genuine comic opera introduced to the colonies in recent years since “ The Merry Widow.” The opera, is literally studded with bright, tuneful, musical gems amongst them being, “ A Paradise for Two,” "Love will Find a Way,” “ Live for To-day,” " For Mani' a Year,’’ " l Over Here and Over There,” “ A Bachelor Gay,” and "When You’re in Love.” The comedy of the play is smart, clever, and wholesome ; not one suggestive line is to be found ip the whole opera, and yet the comedy is .a scream from beginning to end. Above all there is a beautiful love story, which at times calls for intense dramatic power, and at others for tender feelings and pathos. Miss Florence Lusk as Theresa is said to have mastered these qualifications for the part, and being the possessor of a lyric soprano voice of good quality and range, makes an ideal Theresa .as associa.ee pf the brigand. A rare treat awaits local theatre-goers. Seats can be booked at Flatt’s.