ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4844, 24 June 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. "DAUGHTERS OF PLEASURE." "What would you do with a million pounds ?” somebody asks the boy hr girl or the man or the Woman who voices the age-old desire "I wish I were rich.” For those of us who haVe not. a million —and fortunately for humanity we are in the majority there is a convincing note of cheer in "Daughters of Pleasure,” a thrilling Master picture which is to be shown to-night. A particularly competent company interprets the play. Marie Prevost and Monte Blue appear to distinct advantage. Clara Bow is captivating as the young French girl. Wilfred Lucats as Hadley, Edyth Chapman as his wife, and Nellie Blythe Baker in the role of a maid lend decidedly effective support. The picture reveals many delightful scenic effects.

DEMS KEHOE SEASON.

PAEROA, . TUESDAY NEXT.

Denis Kehoe, the young actorsinger, will appear for the first time in Paeroa on Tuesday next, June 30, with “Mother Machree.” The work of a thoroughly skilled playwright should make its appeal boHi to the senses and sentiment of its audience, and Maurice Wehlen, the author, has used as his keynote the great old theme of mother love, the pirmal protective instinct "bf the mother. In the role of Dan O'Connor, elder son of Mother Machree, Denis Kehoe is supported by Helen Fergus as the mother, and a strong cast, headed by Frances Kayher, as Rose O’Dare, Ronald Riley, Gwen Dorisc, Maurice Lynch, Lester Carey, Aileen Dunne, Tom Buckley, Bernard Bccby and others. The Irish harp used has an interesting history. Documentary evidence identifies it with an instrument, built for the famous Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. wife of the celebrated ambassador, by Terence O’Neill, the elder of Abbey St. Dublin, through whose hands it atferwards passed to Tasmania, through the wife of Ser-geant-Mayor Roger O’Marony, of His Majesty’s 94 Regiment of Foot. The box plan for "Mother Machree is on view at Flatt’s.