ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4927, 18 January 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. FIRES OF FATE. The principal attraction to be shown to-night is Sir Arthur Conon Doyle’s Btory, “Fires of Fate.” Wanda Hawley lias the principal, role, with Nigel Bjirric. The story is One of iove and adventure, founded on fact and re-.told on the actual loc -,tions on the Nile River. All the wonders of ancient and modern Egypt are introduced a,s tiie background in the most gorgeous of natural settings ever filmed. Cairo, the Pyramids, Luxor, Karnack, the Valley of the Kings, and the Libyan Desert are included in .the scenery! Also the second series, of the movie marvel, Stereoscopiks. CAPPT RICKS. GAIETY THEATRE—TO-MORROW. All the irresistible witticisms, “seadog" atnior.paere, spirit of “go-get-it-ism,” delightful, realistic, and human touches which have established Peter B. Kyne in the liea.rt of the novelr reader who loved the- light, airy, snappy, real life type of story for all time, is said to be preserved—if not intensified —in Ek M; Rose’s dramatised version of “Gappy Ricks.” which is to be produced for the first time in Paeroa at the Gaiety Theatre to-mor-row by a new comedy company direct from C. Williamson's metropolitan theatres by arrangement with Philip Lytton, Ltd. With a, record Melbourne season of three months, and a run of ten weeks in Sydney to enormous houses, “Cappy Ricks,” with its, great appeal to young and old, is acclaimed by southern critics as a play which positively sparkles, and one in which there is delightful niingljng by a deft hand of the various types of humour, of sentiment, of love interest and commercial rivalry. Wa,rd Lyons in the title role is credited with being the living representation of Kyne’s famous “Cappy.” Other important characters in the cast will be Herbert Stallard as Matt. Peasley, Kathryn Murie as Florence Ricks, Mary Macrae as Ellen Murray, Wajter Dyer as. John Skinner, Donald Nicol as Cecil Pericles, and Doris Bingham as Lucy Ricks. “Cappy Ricks” its 1 claimed to be a play of- action and witty dialogue, witli hearty laughter throughout}. It will, appeal to everybody. It has proved a record breaker throughout the Dominion, and should receive a, hearty welcome by Paeroa theatre-goerfe tomorrow night.