ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4573, 8 June 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES' TO-NIGHT. TOP O’ THE MORNING. Suppose you were a girl who was deeply in love with the man who intended to send your brother up for a long term in the penitentiary. Which would prove greater, your devotion to your own flesh and blood o r your love for the man who would some day be your husband ? That is the situation faced by the heroine of the Universal attraction, "Top O the Morning,” which is to he screened this evening. Gladys Walton is the star. TO-MORROW NIGHT. WET GOLD. Some of the most thrilling' scenes ever photographed are seen in “Wet Gold,” to be presented to-morrow evening. The picture is remarkable for the fact that most of the scenes are taken under the sea. The story concerns the hunt for a treasure that is in a wreck at the bottom of the ocean. Among the thrilling incidents of the picture is seen the working of a big submarine,, a hand to hand fight on the bed of the ocean, and, most thrilling of all, a battle with a maneating shark. Also on the programme is a 9000 ft comedy, “One Week,” featuring Buster Keaton. CAPITOL PICTURES. NGATEA PUBLIC HALL. CROOKED STREETS. At Ngatea to-night Ethel Clayton will be seen in “Crooked Sheets.” Ethel Clayton is a screen favourite, and will be remembered in “Young Mrs Wintlirop,” and many ether Paramount Picture, successes. In support of this is an American Gazette, a Paramount Magazine, and a two-part Mack Sennett comedy. NETHERTON PUBLIC HALL. THE HOME STRETCH. A Paramount production, “The Home Stretch,” featuring Douglas McLean, is the principal attraction at Netherton on Monday evening.®. The story is a romance that starts on a big city race-track, andspeeds through country lanes to love. This masterpiece is supported by an excellent programme, including a Mack Sennett comedy entitled "An International Thief.” This is the final screening night for Capitol Pictures at Netherton. POSSUM PADDOCK. NOT A PICTURE. The fact that Miss Kate Howarde, the well-known author-manageress, is to produce and appear in her wpnde"ful success, “Possum Paddock,” in our midst, will come as a welcome anonuncement to our local playgoers, and also to all interested in art and drama, for the fact that Miss Kate Howarde is a New Zealander, having been born at Blenheim and educated at Christchurch. This talented lady, after her world’s tour, has at last been able tp respond to repeated requests to arrange a comprehensive tour of her native land with her celebrated comedy "Possum Paddock ” Speaking of its Australian Premiere, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote as follows 1 “The Theatre Royal was uproariously rushed —-the eager people tumbling over one another to get in —and after the curtain had been drawn up their parpxysms of laughter would have put a circus crowd to the blush I” i Miss Howarde and her company will appear at Paeroa on Wednesday, June 13. The box plan is now open at Flatt’s.