ENTERTAINMENTS.
AURORA THEATRE PICTURES, TO-NIGHT. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC“Across the Atlantic” is a thrilling romance of. the air, and has to do with an overseas hero who, through injuries, has lost his memory. He is. believed dead, and his brother is to many his sweetheart, when the heroic ace escapes from the hospital, captures a, ’plane, and flies to France in time to prevent the marriage, SATURDAY NIGHT. MQRAN OF THE MARINES. “Moran of the Marines” is one yell from beginning to end. Richard Dix, who has, never yet made a “crook” one, plays the role ctf an. irresponsible youngsterj who joins the army to go to China, merely because the young girl who hej has << £allcn ,, for going there too. The picture is one of quick actiojn and numerous thrills, in which Miss Ruth Elder, the first woman to fly from America to France, demonstrates her ability to fly an aeroplane. BECKY. ‘‘Bodily” is a swiftly moving drama teeming with the colour, glamour, and thrills of city life. It affords an intimate glimpse into thq lives of shop girls. Sally iG’Neill is seen in the role of “Becky,” a child of th® City, who starts life as a shop girl, and who, after some surprising advent urqs, becomes a sensational stage hit. Owen Moore, Getrude Olmstead, Mack Swain, and Harry oroc,ker have prominent parts in the supporting cast. TURUA PICTURES. WHEN FLEET MEETS FLEET. “When Fleet meets Fleet,” showing at the; Turua Hall to-moirrow night, is a romaptje drama based upon facts which actually occurred, and contains one of the strongest dramatic plots, centring on a friendship before the war of two naval commanders, one British and the other German, and their love for an English girl. This picture portrays the action froni both a British and a German point of view. The film shows actual scenqs taken during the war, and the scene which, forms a climax portraying the sinking of. ip enormous battle-cruiser is in itself the most wonderful cinematography has yet provided. BUTTONS. “Buttons,” showing on Tuesday night, with Jackie Coogan at. his best as a page boy on a modern Atlantic liner. It is a drama on a floating hotejl, the adventure of the sea and the most spectacular shipwreck ever flashed on the screen.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5391, 22 February 1929, Page 2
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379ENTERTAINMENTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5391, 22 February 1929, Page 2
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