ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5119, 29 April 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATBE PICTUBEg. TO-NIGHT. THE CAT’S PYJAMAS. Take- one little girl In love, with an opera singer. Add one cat which strays. Mix a jealous dancer whom the opera singer is to marry. Shake till the girl claims the cat from the singer and makes him realise the mistake he is about to make and you have- a delightful romantic cocktail that is this picture. “The Cat’s Pyjamas” is to be shown to-night. SATURDAY NIGHT. THE MAN WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE The famous drama of a man’s ruthless ambitions and tremendous friendship is the theme of “The Man Without a Conscience,” to be shown tomorrow night. THE PRINCE OF TEMPTERS. Ben Lyon, Lya de Putti, and Lois Moran head an all-star cast in “The Prince- of Tempters, which is also to be screened tft-morrow night. Referees for the inter-club Rugby football matches on the Plains tomorrow will be Messrs McMillan and Leonard for the Turua-Ngatea games at Ngatea and Messrs Clotworthy and Reid for the Waitakaruru matches at Kaihere. THE BIG PARADE. NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY. “The Big Parade,” to appear here next Monday and Tuesday, is full of. inspired moments of appealing humanness. Jim Apperson, the rich man’s dandified son “joins up” because all his friends were doing so. The reactions of, an unsophisticated boy to the realities of war, his Surprised dismay at meeting death face to face, liis wounds, his frantic return to search in the ruins of captured and recaptured Champillion for some trace of Melisande, hi.s sweetheart, his sombre home-coming—little jay for him when both his heart and a limb lie in France —his mother’s silent greeting, her mingled relief .and sorrow too great to find expression in words ; hi.s sudden sharp reply to his brother’s unnatural checriness, “my word, Jim, you do look fine I” “Don’t kid me, I know too well what I look like” —natural words of bitterness from one w,hp had suffered to one who had staye-d at home. And then the simple-, unassuming climax that puts the finishing touch of, artistry on a work of art that owes its greatness not to clever writing or elaborate production, but to a faithful portrayal of human emotions.

Supporting this picture is a special song prologue by Mr Abel Rowe.