ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4540, 16 March 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. THE GUTTERSNIPE. Gladys Walton, the popular young star, will appear to-night in “The Guttersnipe. Miss Walton enacts the role of a guttersnipe, surpassing her past excellent performances, and adding another laurel to her crown as one of the leading lights of the screen. TO-MORROW NIGHT. CHANNING OF THE NOR’-WEST. I'cA' to-morrow night an exceptionally good programme has been secured, the star film being “Channing of the Nor’-West,” presenting Eugene O’Brien. CAPITOL PICTURES.

NGATEA AND NETHERTON.

“ THE KID.” Charlie Chaplin’s first venture into the field of feature comedies, “The Kid,” will appear at Ngatea to-night and at Netherton on Monday night. Because the story has a strong vein of pathos throughout, the unusual comedy talent which has made Chaplin the most famous funny man in the ‘world stands out stronger and more joyous than in any previous production in which he has appeared. “ The Kid ” is a realisation of an ambition which the comedian has held for years, so he whipped it into shape and started work upon the pioduction of the story. There are but five characters of importance in it, and are characterised as the man, the woman, the kid, the tramp, and the policeman. The comedian himself plays the part, of the triamp, while a real find as a juvenile actor, Jackie Coogan, has the title role ; and Edna Purviance plays the woman. The woman abandons her baby by leaving it in a limousine car. Thieves steal the car and toss the baby into an ash pile, where it is found wailing by the tramp. The tramp raises it through babyhood and into early childhood. The woman has made a success on the operatic stage and devotes her life and fortune to aiding children of the slums. Thus she comes to know both the tramp and the kid without suspecting the latter’s identity. When it is discovered that Charlie is not the kid’s father the authorities seek to separate them, but .the tramp has spent his life evading authority, and does it again. The woman discovers that the kid is her abandoned baby, and the picture draws to a Jiappy close.