ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4571, 1 June 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES. Dear Patrons, —We take pleasure in announcing our programme for f.onight, “Taking Chances,” featuring Dick Talmadge, brother of the famous Norma and Connie. We had this artist in a picture called “The Unknown,” and he was “unknown’ in that picture, because we had a poor house, but what a picture! The thrills and stunts that he performed were simply amazing. He was Douglas Fairbanks, Tom Mix, and Buck Jones rolled into one, and we Reckon that if he lives up to his reputation in this picture you will not be disappointed. On the same programme is a Western drama featuring Eileen Sedgwick, a two-part Century comedy, entitled “Cured,” featuring that human horse Queenie, and a news reel completes the programme.

To-morrow night,. Saturday, there will be a very fine picture, entitled “Tol’able David,” featuring that Stirling actor Richard Bartheliness, and we would advise ■'everyone to come and view this picture, which we consider one of t,he best productions we have been privileged to screen. We have gone away from the old order of things in taking what the film exchanges send us,, and we are picking out pictures that are a hundred per cent, for Satuirday nights. Our next Saturday’s programme is “Wet Gold,” to be followed by “Peck’s Bad Boy,” featuring Jackie Coogan ; then follows “On Our, Selection,” adapted from the book by Steele Rudd. We think you will agree with us, after viewing thdm, that ouir. policy is the best in selecting such pictures} Don’t miss.,them pn any account. On Monday' night next' we will screen our second big Paramount, super-production, “Beyond the Rocks,” by Elinor Glyn, featuring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. These artists and the picture need no comment from us. Suffice it to say it rau for’ three weeks in the Princess Theatre. Auckland. We have contracted for twelve of these, bur next being “A Fool’s Paradise,” to be followed by “Blood and sand” and “Manslaughter” ami “The Old Homestead.” These pictures cost a large sum to secure, ami we are reluctantly compelled to make a small increase in price to meet the extra expense. On the same programme we arq also submitting a Clyde Cook special comedy, entitled “The Huntsman,” and I reckon you will put in your “fun clutch” and let her go. Cheerio. —Woods and Jennings. x CAPITOL PICTURES. NGATEA PUBLIC HALL. BEYOND THE ROCKS. Rudolph Valentino' .and Gloria. Swanson feature in Elinor Glyn’s sensational drama “Beyond the Rocks,” which is to be screened at, Ngatea this evening This picture is a romantic drama of, passionate young love struggling against convention, and is set amidst the glittering world of Eingland’s high society, it is a romance of* intrigue and coquetry in the gilded resorts of London, of tingling adventure in the crags of the Alps—a drama with all the thrills and luxury of a lifetime, the one pictuie you will never forget. THE MAGNIFICENT BRUTE. In addition to this masterpiece will be presented “The Magnificent Brute,” featuring > Frank Mayo,, the hero of romance. This masterpiece reveals life in the raw—life as men live it under the law of Might and Right—as it is lived in the snow-covered for ests of the Great, North-West. It is the colourful story of an ultra modern girl who trifles with the affection of a primitive man. NETHERTON PUBLIC HALL. CROOKED STREETS. At Netherton on Monday night Ethel Clayton will be seen in ‘iCrooked Streets.” Ethel Clayton is a screen favourite, and will be remembered in “Young Mrs Winthrop,” and many other Paramount Picture successes. THE FAMOUS DIGGERS. IN THE REVUE “TIP TOP.” If one were to draw comparisons between the various travelling shows of their kind that have toured New Zealand during the past few years it must be. handed to The Diggers as being the “ace” of merriment purveyors. During the birth pf each individual production the important question that concerns The Diggers’ management is, “What can we do to give our audiences a night of laughter ?” The foundation of the new production of The Diggers, the revue “Tip Top,” is laughter, laughter, laughter. Never has such an uproariously funny programme been presented bv this wisely discriminating management—in truth, some of the comedy is so absurdly humorous as to really make the proverbial cat laugh. The “Superb Six” ballet has become a popular adjunct of this talented organisation, and is a vertjable credit tc New Zealand beauty and terpsichorean art. The Diggers appear in Paeroa on Tuesday, June 5.