ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5325, 12 September 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AURORA THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. SHANGHAI BOUND. “Shanghai Bound,” which is to be pre: anted this evening, ii, a rcinantic melodrama laid along the Yangtse River in China. Richard Dix plays the role of a Yangtse River steamer captain, operating up the r.iver from Shanghai, where o|nc. night he runs across a. patty of Americans who are totally unaware of th’fir danger from Hie hun.ger-mad hordes. How he takes them down the river after hie Chinese crew have deserted and joined with the river pirates who attack the ship, forms one of the most thrilling stories ever, filmed. COLUMBIA COMEDY CO. In with the, pictures the Colombia Comedy Company will occupy the stage after the interval, introducing the famous comedian, Sam Stern. THURSDAY NIGHT. 1 IN OLD KENTUCKY. J “In Old Kentucky,” the chief attrac,tioin; for to-morrqw night, is a romantic ■ turf.' drama, screened and enacted amidst the blue grass of Kentucky. The war’s blow to young lives - and /indirectly older lives —forms the theme of the plqt, taking the onlooker through great surges of drama to the; crowded racecourse where flying thoroughbred' hoofs at last race, to reconcile several throbbing hearts.