ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4846, 29 June 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. “FOG BOUND.” Dorothy Dalton’s latest . Paramount picture production, "Fog Bound,” is to be shown to-night. It isi in every respect a capital picture. The scenes of the story are laid in Florida, and the heroine is the daughter of a revenue officer. The - latter is slain in circumstances which point ■ to the guilt of the girPs sweetheart, but after many thrilling incidents his innocence is-established. David Powell gives an artistic portrayal, opposite Miss Dalton. The supporting company' is highly capable. The picture is rare entertainment, and well worth seeing..

DENNIS KEHOE SEASON.

GAIETY THEATRE, TO-MORROW. Denis Kehoe, the romantic actorsinger, and a strong supporting company, will present the play "Mother Machree” for a season of one night only in ■ the the Gaiety Theatre tomorrow night. The plot of the play is a touching arid appealing one, replete with romance and the pathos of life.' The words will be embellished by beautiful old-time songs and old-time music played on the harp. Denis Kehoe -knows, his work, and the force of his romantic acting winjs its way with the audience right from the start. Maurice Wehlen, author of “Mother Machree,” has taken an Irish farming family, than whom no class is fonder of the ancestral soil, and the grasping administrator of an absentee owner who seeks to avenge his private spleen upon them, and has -concocted an interesting little romance, introducing types of characters whose briskness and readiness of repartee enliven the more sombre aspects of the story. As Dan O’Connor elder son of Mother Machree. Denis Kehoe presents, a chivalrous type whose mercurial spirits find vent in the songs of his country, sung to the .accompaniment of the little Irish harp. In support appears Frances Kayher as Rose O’Darc, a charming; visitor, who radiates the delicate grace and colour of the flower for which she is named. Helen Fergus in the sympathetic role of “Mother Machree,’’ Ronald Riley, Gwen Dorise, Aileen Dunne, Tom Buckley,-Bernard Beeby, Charles Keegan, and Lester Carey also appear in characters that call for skilled intrepretation. The plan is bn view at Flatt’s.