ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4905, 20 November 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. ' DESIRE. A picture that is crammed with romance and thrills, showing how the upper ten live in their gilded palaces and where they take their hectic pleasures, will be presented this even; ing. It is “Desire,” tlie'Metro picture, of miscast lives, of a rich girl who •thought she had found happinefss when she married her chauffeur- Marguerite de la Motte, John Bowers, and Estelle Taylor are the players. Also on the programme isi’ “Fighting Blood.” TO-MORROW NIGHT. SO BIG. Colleen Moore's, latest starring vehicle, “So Big,” which is the attraction for to-morrow night, is aii adaptation, from Edna Ferber’s novel, based on life in the old Dutch settlement near Chicago, and is highly dramatic in its, action. Im “So Big” Colleen, who has heretofore been the leading exponent of film flapper roles, enters a new dramatic realm.. As Selina Peake, who later becomes Selina De Jong, she its called upon to portray three distinctly emotional roles—the first as a girl in her a flapper of the nineties, as it were; the second as the wife of a Dutch market gardener, and tlie third as a woman of’fifty. . '