ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4608, 1 October 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. ONE EXCITING NIGHT. Something new has come with DW. Griffith’s latest film, “One Exciting Night,” a United Artists release, which is one attraction for to-night. In the past years many an innovation has come to the .screen, but this latest handiwork of Griffith’s is different ; it is new; and it is refreshing. The story concerns a young girl, played by Miss Carol Dempster. She is the most recent of the Griffith stars, and perhaps the loveliest. Certainly she has a beauty that is wondrous on the screen, and there is an eloquent deftness to her acting. Also the stoiy concertos a half million dollars that bootleggers have left in the house of a young man without his knowledge. The hero is Henry Hull, a stage .star, making his first appearance in pictures. He is dark and active and handsome, with an easy grace and care-free manner that is pleasant. “DICK WHITTINGTON.” TO-MORROW NIGHT. The ingredients of a good pantomime consist of a pretty nursery, abundance of rollicking comedy, a number of bespangled dancing girls, coloured scenery, delightful and extravagant dresses, a glittering ensemble, the whole flavoured with romance and served up brightly with melodious trimmings. All these are to be found in Tano Fama’s pantomime, ’’Dick Whittington." Befote proceeding to New Zealand the pantomime was resented in Newcastle (N.S.W.) and the newspapers were higMy eulogistic, one of them going so far as to say that they had never seen such a splendid cast outside of metropolitan productions. “In Mr Ted Stanley,” continued the paper, “ the pantomime has a genius at funmsking. His dame impersonation was one of the funniest things we have ever seen. Of the scenic offerings “ The Lovers’ Walk ’’ is a feast of beautiful flowers which vies with the’ "The Tropical Isle” and “The Palace of Jewels” for pride of place in a number of gorgeous scenes. Reserved -seats may be booked at F. E. Flatt’s.