ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4779, 21 November 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT FAST STEPPERS. The first of a series from the Red Book racing stories by Gerald Beaumont entitled ‘‘Fast Steppers” will be tshown at the Gaiety Theatre to-night. It is a Universal two-reel; story, built around the adventures of The Information Kid. Duke R. Lee, famous for his characterisations o! George Washington, Buffalo Bill, and other famous characters, has a prominent role in this series of race-track stories starring Billy Sullivan. BROADWAY OR BUST. Hoot Gibson has gained a reputation as one of the most natural comedians of the screen, and his latest starring vehicle, "Broadway or Bust," a special Universal-Gibson production which will also be shown to-night, has been heralded as one of the funniest of the etories written for him. It tells the story of great wealth thrust upon a cowboy, who takes a friend and two horses to New York to become a society sensation. SATURDAY NIGHT. ANNA CHRISTIE. in all the history of motion pictures no mightier scene ever has been screened that the “crux” scene of "Anna Christie,” Thomas H. Ince’s latest picture offering, which will be shown to-morrow night. Adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s successful stage play, the scene has been filmed with even more daring than marked the stage offering. It portrays a girl, deserted in childhood by her father, who thinks he is helping her by sending her far from the influence of the sea, which he fears, trapped into a confession of the life into which her father’s spurning of responsibility forced her. Blanche Sweet, George Marion, and William Russell are the actors in the powerful sequence. NEW FOLLIES. MONDAY NEXT, GAIETY THEATRE. An exchange states of a recent performance of the New Follies, who are advertised to appear in the Gaiety Theatre on Monday, that brightness was the dominant key note Miss LeeSmith is the possessor of a fine voice, and she was heard to advantage in all her numbers. Songs were also rendered by Dorothy Verne, Doreen Ade I a and Frank Walker, while Earle Walker gave several saxophone solos that earned the approval of the audience. The comedy part of the show was in the capable hands of John Larkins. Possessed of a fine voice and pleasing personality, he delivers the “ goods ” in a first-class style, and the audience was loth to part with him.. Not the least praiseworthy feature about the show was its freeness from vulgarity.