ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4828, 11 May 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. WEDNESDAY NIGHT. DOUBLE-STAR PROGRAMME. "THE CRITICAL AGE.” Everybody likes to talk over theii school days, the pranks they used to play, the teachers they used to have, and the good times they experienced. There are few people that do not enjoy seeing upon the screen scenes reminiscent of thsi important part of life. In "The Critical Age,” a picturisation of Ralph Connor’s novel, “Glengarry School Days.” there is every opportunity for the cider folk, and the young ones, too, to see. some exceptionally humorous scenes of schoo'. days. " THE PLUNDERER.” Played by a notable cast of screen pel formers, most of whom won enviable reputations on the stagey tne William Fox screen version of "The Plunerder.’' from the story by Roy Norton, promises- .to be unique among film spectacles. Frank Mayo has the principal role, with Evelyn Brent, Tom Santsehi, Jamejs Mason, Peggy Shaw, Edward Phillips, and Don Mason. The story deals with a romance of the old mining days, and is replete with incidents of intrigue and fa«t action. A flooded mine, realistis tights, and similar action are said to combine ot make every foot of film twelve inches of celluloid excitement.-