ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4513, 10 January 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. “NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.” The picture to be screened to-night is “Nothing Else Matters,” a Welsh Pearson production with an all star cast. j CAPITOL PICTURES. NGATEA AND NETHERTON.

“DANGEROUS DAYS.” The Capitol Pictures will ,/creen “Dangerous Days” at Ngatea on Friday evening and at Netherton on the following Monday evening. The story tells of the dangerous days just -before the war for the Spencer Steel Works. Rudolph Klein is plotting to have his brother blow up the munitions plant, but Herman, having been long associated with the Spencer concern, refuses. Clayton Spencer, head of the corporation, attends strictly to business, while his wife,, Natalie, is occupied with gay social entertainments; also interested; ip Rodney Page, an architect in love with her. At a ball both hosts and guests barely escape destruction by a powerful explosive concealed in a fountain pen. Clayton becomes sympathetically confidential with Audrey Valentine, whose son was among those who enlisted with the Canadians. Clayton's own sori is secretly loved by Delight Haverlord and more by impassioned Anna Klein,, the young mans private se'eretaty and daughter of Kerman Klein. Rftdolph tries to embitter Herman against the Spencers because of his daughters love for Graham. Graham is fond of her. He gives her a wristlet watch, and the infatuated girl is foolish enough to wear it. Rudolph discovers this and uses his discovery to inflame Herman against the Spencers. Herman cruelly beats the girl. Anna escapes from her home and is taken to a place by Graham. This also being discovered, Herman is. bent oh revenge. Ahna hears a conspiracy in which her father agrees to blow the factory up, and she escapes from her room and hurries to the works, but is top late, her father having started the conflagration. Audrey and Anna get caught in the ruins and Clayton rushes to .the scene and saves Audrey, but Anna dies in his arms.

THE FAMOUS DIGGERS. NEW REAL GIRL SHOW. PAEROA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16. There is no doubt about the popularity of the real girl show which “Tlie Famous Diggers' ” management are now presenting to their New Zealand audiences. When an advertisement was put in the paper for chorus girls there were 178 applications from the North Island alone, and. from these “The Diggers” picked six lovely ballet girls, who are how known as “The Superb Six.” Already they have danced their wav into popularity. Superbly dressed and sumptuously mounted the show, with its ten beaut’iful girls, takes on quite a different aspect to that which' it h::d when i.ts warrior performers first returned from France. Of the comedy one may say that the best sketches and satires of the latest London and American shows are packed into the two and a half hour’" programme, interspersed, of course, with the very latest from songdand. Miss Claire Gooley has been described in Australia as *t‘he Gladys Monerieff of Revue.” It is seldom given to the lot of Now Zealanders to hear two such line comedians on one bill as Messis Joe Valli and Jimmy Norton. Elly Dalgleish is a glad little person who dispenses cheer whenever she is on the stage. Stan Lawson, who has received a fine offer from America, is going to remain a few months longer, with: “The Diggers, and 1 will be seen in both man and girl parts.