ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5361, 7 December 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AURORA THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. LONE HAND SAUNDERS. Powerful with the virility and realism that marks all of Fred Thomson’s productions is “Lqne Hand Saunders.” The famous Western star gives a splendid interpretation of the role of a surgeon, who, embittered by the deatn of his sister whom he hoped to cure, comes to Arizona and establishes himself as a ranch owner. How this resolutions are broken down by his sympathy for a crippled boy and the latter’s devoted nurse forms the basis of a graphic and 1 forceful picture. Fred’s noted equine assistant, Silver King, plays an important part. SATURDAY NIGHT. THE LATEST FROM PARIS. The story of “The Latest from Paris” centres round the business of two Jewish partners who manufacture “the latest froc,ks from Paris.’’ Ann Dolan, played by Nqrma Shearer, is their star saleswoman. This girl knows “the road” as well as her male rivals—and better, if success be any criterion, for the things she does to get sales for her sporty old bosses, and to swell her own banking account, would make many a seasoned traveller give up ‘the road” in despair at his inability to cope with her originality. THE COLLEGE WIDOW. <“The College Widow” is a play of cqllege life, and tells the story of the daughter of a college president who revived the fortunes of the school and secured her father’s insecure job by recruiting a winning football team by feminine wiles. Then the mix-up is on. “The College Wido.w” is big, funny, human. It is the finest football story ever filmed. Dolores Costello is in the leading role. TURUA PICTURES. OLD SAN FRANCISCO. To-morrqw night “Old San Francisco” will be screened. San Francisco’s great fire, and the lurid and picturesque doings of old Chinatown and. the Barbary Coaslt, have been at last brought to the screen. PARTNERS IN CRIME. “Partners in Crime,” showing on Tuesday night, depicts Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in their best scream to date. N6w they are in “Gang Land,” in the best set-up they have ever effected, they get and give *thrills, and. above all, they are the two greatest laughter-makers coming to Turua again. REV. CHANDLER’S LECTURE. PAEROA, NEXT FRIDAY EVENING. The Rev., Charles Chandler, assistant City Missioner, whq is to deliver ah address in the Gaiety Theatre, Paerpa, on Friday evening next, December 14, is noted for the work he has done in the slums, and since he came to Auckland, among the poor cjf that city, where the Rev. Jasper Calder has been labouring for so many years. Mr Chandler cap speak from first-ihand knowledge of. how the poor live in our great cities. His story will be crammed full of amusing and pathetic incidents, and a record crowd should be drawn to his lecture. The Reverend gentleman is a noted contributor, to the press on religious and social topics, and is at present contributing to two Australian papers and to one of the leading papers in Auckland. Very few men of his age have c,ramm.ed more into, their lives by way of experience amongst all manner of men. He is also l a most fascinating speakfer, and in every town where he has lectured he has left behind an almost indelible impression upon the minds of the people.