ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5072, 7 January 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. THE SKY HIGH CORRAL. “Sky High Corral,” which is to be screened to-night, with Acord in tjie, stellar saddle, is all that Western fans could possible wish for. It has mystery, action, and surprise tactics in liberal measure, and the animal actors are able tp do stme clever work in this fast and furious film. Acord’s 'famous horse Raven and his dog Rex have, become so well identified with the star that he declares the fourfooted players are just as much responsible for the success df the picture as he iq himself, or, 'for that matter, any other member of the cast, which includes such capable players as, Marguerite Clayton, Duke R. Lee, and Jack Mower. SATURDAY NIGHT. THE BEAUTIFUL CITY. There is an unusual anil appealing romance in- “The Beautiful City,” to be. shown to-morrow night It is the love of an Ital'nn boy, Tony, played by Richard Barthelmess, Tor Mollie, an Irish colleen, portroyed by Dorothy Gish. They are deeply in love, but marriage is out of the. question until Tony is able to earn more money, the income from his flower push-cart, being too small to support a wife. REVEILLE. “Reveille,” which is also to be. shown to-morrow night, cannot be explained in conventional .terms o'f film entertainment, because it neither follows the ordinary formula of film drama nor film comedy. Indeed, it has no film plot at all—it is, a vivid impression of life itself, elemental life in London, or any town in Britain, in t,he year 1918 and 1923. A year of war - and a year of peace. Strange contrasts—hectic gaiety in London, death in Flanders ; the riotous laughter and song of the celebration of seven days’ leave, and an elderly mother’s only lullaby. A yean o'f War and a year cJf Peace —the most poignant drama of all time —that is "Reveille.” . TURUA HALL. THE RUNAWAY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, What happens when a pqeitty little “hard boiled” actress hides, from justice because, of a crime she hasn’t committed ? That’s the basic thought about which William de Mille's new paramount production, “The Runaway,” showing at Turua on Saturday, is based. THE BAGLfe. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11. On Tuesday the picture, entitled “The Eagle,” is a fast riding hard fighting romance o'f Cossacks, bandits, princes,, and glorious .women. Rudolph Valentino, as a. young Cossack Officer, tired <*f the amorous attentions o'f the Empress, whom he feprs and hates, flees from the Royal Guard, and becomes a hunted bandit leader known as the the Eagle. In the genteel guise of a French tutor, the Eagle, by day, makes subtle; love to the daughter of his enemy—played by the fascinating Vilma Banky. The, end is unexpected and delightfully pleading.