ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4556, 27 April 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES. TO NIGHT. AFRAID TO FIGHT. " Afraid to Fight,” a Universal picture starring Frank Mayo, is to be the principal attraction for to-night. The chief point in the story is the illustration of a man’s soul labouring under the stigma of cowardice. Competed by his word of honour in an agreement not to fight, he is thrown into a situation where a bad egg needs a good whipping and failure to give it to him puts the hero in a mighty bad light with a good woman. TO-MORROW NIGHT. EMPIRE OF DIAMONDS. A programme of excetpional merit has been secured for to-morrow night. The star attraction is an excellent picture, entitled “Empire of Diamonds,” featuring an all-star cast. “Love’s Outcast,” a 2000 ft Mack Sennett comedy, is also on the programme. CAPITOL PICTURES. NGATEA PUBLIC HALL. THREE SEVISNS. An excellent vehicle is promised for the daring Vitagraph star, Antonio Moreno, in “Three Sevens,” which is to be screened at Ngatea this evening. This is the story of a man who was sentenced on circumstantial evidence to 20 years’ imprisonment .for a crime which he never committed. How lie succeeded in escaping from prison and the brutalities of a heartless warder make one of the most thrilling dramas to date. There is a big supporting cast in the picture. NETHERTON PUBLIC HALL. OVER THE HILL. “Over the Hill,” the William Fox .'■uncial film feature which is to be screened at Netherton on Monday, is c< tainly deserving of all the fine things the New York press has said about it. The picture is delightful at a’l times, and forms one of the most finely balanced examples of sentiment and comedy combined that has been seen on the local screen. The story, which was taken from Will Carleton's poems, recounts the joys and sorrows of a typica) mother, who raises a large family of children, only to have them, in her old age, allow her to drift from them, to eke out an existence on charity. The “ black sheep ” son, however, when he discovers this condition, comes to his aged mother’s rescue, and all ends happily—with the little mother, just like every true mother that ever lived, forgiving and forgetting the selfishness and cruelty of her own flesh and blood.