ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 489, 23 October 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. “VANITY FAIR.” "Vanity Fair” has been hailed by generations o-E readers as the most fascinating work of fiction in all, English literature. Now the famous characters step forth from the pages of Thackeray’s great romantic novel with their loves and intrigues, their weaknesses and their virtues, to take part in Hugo Ballin’s memorable pieturisation of the absorbing story. Picturegoers to-night will be thrilled by the lavishly beautiful! pictures of this gay and adventurous period , by scenes'of dazzling splendour, by .the society beauties and courageous soldiers who pass by in splendour, living fully whether the music sounds' the invitation to the waltz or the bugle calls to battle. Here is fic-. tion’s greatest love classic made into a colossal photoplay of stirring grandeus. Here is an achievement of the films that no one will want to miss. TO-MORROW NIGHT. “ A THIEF IN PARADISE.” .If you like romance, vivid colour, tense drama, and pictorial beauty in your screen entertainment, don’t miss “A Thief' in Paradise,!’, which is to be shown to-morrow night. The story opens with a vivid episode in the pearl fisheries of the China Coast, 1 and progresses swiftly to San Francisco, Burlingame, and Del Monte. It is .the story of a man whom Fate has made a failure, and who seizes the opportunity to masquerade as another man in one last effort to regain his self-respect. His accomplice in the impersonation is an Eurasian girl who falls in love with him and stops at nothing to win him. In the rote of naother man he meets and eventually marries another girl. A splendid cast enacts .this fine story, including Doris Kenyon, Donald Colman, and Aileen Pringle ; and the settings provided are some of the richest and most pretentious ever seen upon .the screen.

On Wednesday next a double-star programme will be submitted; —Ch’arlie Chaplin in “The Pilgrim” and “Pioneer Trails.” A matinee will be given at 3.15 p.m.