ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4506, 20 December 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

f CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES* TO NIGHT. “THE TIDAL WAVE.” The Stoll picturisation of Ethel M. Dell’s popular novel, “The Tidal Wave,” is the attraction for to-night. The story in brief is as follows: Life flowed peacefully in a little Cornish fishing village until the advents of \ Columbine, with a mandoline, ’a ■ bundle, and a Spanish temper, sen: by her dying father to his sister, Aunt Eliza. Eliza’s husband, Aidam, owner pf the village inn, and his son, Rufus, were disturbed, each in a different way. Rufus—honest, courageous, unroniantic—soon found a rival for Columbine’s favour in Frank Knight, an artist, who made loye to her. The gilrl posed for him, and the threats 1 of Rilfus and the shocked remonstrances of fchle older folk only made her flame into anger, and caused her to throw herself into the too-, eagqr arms of Knight, who held the affair more lightly than the. girl. On a gloomy day Columbine, in a diaphanous garment, posed for - the artist p'n a huge rock on the seashore. The tolling of the offshore; bell-buoy, first warning of, the approach of the tidal wave, passed unheeded, and the raging waters covered the beach and surrounded the rock before the pair could move. Rufus went to the rescue and got Columbine, half dead, to the inn. She iroused herself long enough to demand that he should go back’for - Knight; and, on her promise to do anything for Jiim in return, he complied with her wish, risking his life again in the angry seas. After. Knight had recovered he went away without leaving any message for the girl, and it was then that she came to recognise the true worth of Rufus.

CAPITOL PICTURES.

NGATEA PUBLIC HALL. “FINE FEATHERS.” In tile Ngatea Public Hall on Friday next a Metro production, adapted from the great stage play by Eugene Walter is to be screened. It tells the story of Jane Reyno’lds, a discontented young wife. Her husbahd, Bob,* was a clerk_in ap engineering office, and the two of them had hard work trying to make both ends meet in their modest little • bungalow •on . Staten Island. And then one day James Brand called at the Reynolds’! bun gall ow. He came for a puppose— . the purpose of getting Bob to certify an inferior grade of cement in the construe! ion of a dam that Brand is building. Bob indignantly rejects the' proposal, but Jane, listening and aflame with the thought of the luxury it will bring, goads her young husband finally into ah acceptance of the offer. But though fine {feathers make V fine birds, riches dp not bring happiness, as becomes increasingly- evident to Bob and Jane twb years later. Bob * is haunted by the crime he has committed and< has taken to drink and speculation. Losing heavily in the market, he goes to Brand for addi- - tional funds to make good his losses, but Brand laughs at him. And then •like a bolt from the blue comes tihe word that the dam has burst .and that > . ; many lives have been lost. Knowing that an investigation will convict him, Bob slips an automatic pistol into his pocket and again starts for Brand’s house. The rest of the story is thTill« ipgly set forth. > ' *