ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4545, 31 March 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURESTO NIGHT. JOHN SMITH. "Where were you last night ?” The question was put by the district attorney to John Smith, who was airested for the murder of his chaffeur. And Smith replied, ‘‘l cannot tell you.” Ninety-nine meh in a hundred would ini mediately give a verdict of guilty, and in ninety-nine cases they would be correct, but John Smith wasn’t. But everything pointed to his gilt. The nightwatchman had seen him leave the house with the chaffenr’s keys, take the car from the garage and disappear into the night. The rest of this enthralling mystery is cleared up at the Central Theatre t,o-night. MONDAY NIGHT. UNDER TWO FLAGS. “Under Two Flags,” frpm the immortal novel by Ou-ida, is to be presented on Monday, evening. It tells the story of Victor, a derelict in Algiers, who shakes dice with Cigarette, the Daughter of the Regiment, to determine whether he shall fight with France or with her enemies, the Arabs. Cigarette wins,, and subsequently learns to love the quietly forceful Victor, who is a man of mys’tery. Princess d’Amague arrives from England at the height of the intrigue against the Chasseurs promoted by the Arab Sheik Ben Ali Hamed, and it. »s revealed that Victor is in reality a British nobleman. His favour wit.’i the Princess earns him the hatred of hie colonel, who conspires to have him shot for treason. Cigarette, apparently accepting the advances of her enemy, the Sheik, learns of this, and riding wildly with a’stay of execution, arrives just at. the crest of the Arab attack. What follows, both in the way of stupendous action and beautiful love scenes, helps to make this a picture that will live forever in the memory of, all who see it. ,

CAPITOL PICTURES.

NETHERTON PUBLIC HALL. OUTSIDE THE LAW. At Netherton on Monday night Priscilla Dean, foremost emotional star, is to be seen in the Universal Jewel Super production “ Outside the La w” The story in brief is as follow : “ Silent Madden,” once a c:ook of national notoriety, has listened to the teaching of his friend, Chang Lo —a- “ heathen ” to whom religion is more than statute-book laws--and reformed With him, in respectability, lives his daughter, Molly Madden, whose wisdom is worldly, but wlrose heart is as pure and hard as a diamond., She is “ Silky Moll ” to all Chinatowh. Respectability annoys Madden’s former lieutenant,, Black Mike Silva, who stages a gang fight for the purpose of “ getting ” Maddern, and, failing lo kill him, get him railroaded to prison for the alleged shooting of an officer. Honesty has been irksome to Silky Moll, and now she resolves to avenge her father’s imprisonment. For the development and climax of the story see “ Outside the Law.”