ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5015, 18 August 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. THE SNOB. Eugene Curry, a young university professor and a snob in the making, marries Nancy Claxton when she is supposedly on her death-bed. His love for her, however, has been sacrificed to his ambition, and he intends to marry a wealthy girl, as soon as Nancy’s dea,th frees him. But Nancy gets, well. The other girl has fastened on to Eugene and is determined to get him. He assists her plans and, despite the intervention of an old sweetheart of Nancy’s, the Currys are verging on divorce when Eugene learns that Nancy is in reality an heiress to millions. He is willing to call the divorce off, but Nancy goes, through with it and then marries her old sweetheart. THURSDAY NIGHT. THE WANDERER. The first Prodigal Son certainly needed all. his portion and a good deal more to live up to the fashionable standards of his day, judging by the magnificence eV Babylonian life as displayed in “The Wanderer.,’ And with such a temptress as Greta Nissen makes of Tisha, high priestess of the god Ishtar, neither his money nor his morals could be expected to stand the drain. But the luzury of the Temple of Ishtar and the manner of the Prodigal’s fall are told in scenes of unparalleled magnificence. The huge buildings of the Babylonian city and the colourful 'crowds; the spacious pillared halls of the home of Tisha, where the immense metal god broods over worshipping thousands—all these are portrayed on a stupendous scale.