ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5369, 28 December 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AURORA THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. BORN TO BATTLE. An excellent programme has been secured for Friday, headed by a thrilling western drama entitled “Born to Battle.” SATURDAY. DECEMBER 29. GOOD TIME CHARLEY., “Good Time Charley” is tjie merry, pathetic, absorbing story of the heyday and fall and rise of the song"anddance man of a small town stock company. Helen Costello is in the leading role. CAPTAIN SALVATION. The romance of the old days when men braved .the sea in .square-rigged ships—when hardships were the sailor’s lot; when glorious romance gilded the ter,rijj Ci struggle of man against the elements —these are the thingy that “Captain salvation,” Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer’s vivid drama of the high, seas, brings to the screen. MONDAY AND TUESDAY. “GOOD MORNING, JUDGE.” Reginald Denny has long been the screen's comedian par xxcellence, but in “Good Morning, Judge,” he reaches the pinnacle of his mirthprovoking, qualities. Imagine Denny as a wealthy young man who confesses to the most dastardly crimes so that .he may remain in a charity mission for homeless crooks and be near the girl he loves. And all the time the girl is trying to reform him. The star breezes through the role in his usual laugh-winning manner. TURUA PICTURES. SATURDAY NIGHT. BRASS KNUCKLES. “B.as.s Knuckles, with Betty Bronson, showing at Turua Hall to-morr. row night, is a human and 1 y®t most thrilling drama. It has to da with a crook who wasn’t really so crooked, who cared for a motherless waif, Who, gjr.own. to womanhood, is willing to be the wife of her. protector. MONDAY AND TUESDAY NEXT. BEN HUR. “Ben Hur” will be screened, on Moh- 1 day and Tuesday next. It is a triumph of beauty, imagination, and courage. In every country of the world “Ben Hur” has thrilled and inspired countless thousands of every race, colour, and creed.