ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4474, 2 October 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. “WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE.” Will Rogers in “Water, Water Everywhere” is the attraction for tonight, and is a picture which is calculated to entertain every type of picturegoer. If one is looking for quaint comedy, one will find it in ricK expression. The star enacts the part of a cowboy who defeats the prohibition forced by the substituting of one evil for the other. He installs a soda water fountain in the Hell’s Bells Saloon and a flock of pretty girls as attendants, which are sufficient to keep the husbands from their firesides. But beneath its comedy stroke is a sweet and powerful story of renunciation and self-sacrifice. You look upon a man who gives up the girl he loves in order that she may marry the man of her heart. WAIKIKI HAWAIIANS. TO-MORROW NIGHT. The Hawaiians are to appear at the Central Theatre to-morrow evening. The major portion of the music is produced by the Hawaiian steel guitar, and Mr Keoke Greig is an adept on the instrument. The musical items are mostly concerted, or sblos with accompaniment, and the interpretation is typical of the temperament of the soulful whahatau of the South Seas. The Hawaiians’ work is never mechanical, conventional, or stodgy. Mr Keoke-Greig will give “The Rosary.” his interpretation of this popular setting being exquisite. Miss LilliOkalani will dance the Hamons “Lalua Hulu” —the dance that fiction writers and poets have so long raved about. One number likely to appeal will be Miss A. Leata’s “Arabian Moon,” sung in Eastern costume, with appropriate setting. She conveys the author’s impressions with a fidelity that stamps her as a clever artist. The company give an imita tio'i of the brewing of “Kava”—the “wine” of the tropics. The second half of. the programme will be by the Hawaiians in European dress. Humorous items like “The Ragtime Jockey” and an imitation of an American jazz band will show the Hawaiians’ versatility. The programme terminates with a finale—“Au Revoir Honolulu.”