ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5405, 27 March 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AURORA THEATRE PICTURES,

TO-NIGHT.

NONE BUT THE BRAVE. The story of “ None but thq Brave

concerns a bey— a hero at college who brings his school world to his feet with a series of splendid athletic feats. Howevey, when he graduates he findls the business, world, has no time to pay homage tci an ex-athlete and he is forced to eke out an existence a.s a life guard. His life is brightened by the entrance of Mis® Phipps, who sells hot dog on the beach. The two strike up a friendship that bolsters bis courage and helps him win a race that ends with rice and l wedding bells. THURSDAY, MARCH 28. KIT CARSON. “ Kit Carson,” featuring that wtnllkno'vn Western actor, Fred Thomson, is lite chief attraction for Thursday. SATURDAY, MARCH 30. PLAYING STRAIGHT. “Playing Straight” is a. picture which sends the blood, surging through thy veins and- stirs, the soul to action in memories of those college days when life was just one round ftf great anticipation: a dramatic tribute to youth and the spirit of the campus life. DIAMOND HAN.DCUFFS. “Diamnod Handcuffs” is, literally th req pictures in one, though each ctf the three episodes deals with a priceless but ominous diamond! which moves through each sequence as. the centre of events. It commences its career of tragedy in sun-parched Africa, sears mote souls in glittering cosmopottitan society, and then plunges into the grim shadows of the underworld of another continent! MONDAY, APRIL 1. THE SKY SKIDDER. “ The Sky Skidder,” featuring Al Wilson, the screen’s most daring air ace, promises to furnish thrills such as have never before; been filmed. Right from the opening of the picture the spectator is treated, to a thrill, a runaway motor car and! its occupants rescued from certain death! by the hazardous but successful attempt of an aviator to fly Ins plane low enough to allow him to lower a rope ladder and soi transfer the careering car’s occupants to the plane. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK. Betty Compson plays, the leading feminine role opposite George Bancroft in the latter’s starring picturq, “The Docks of Ne,w York.” She p'ortrays the roflo of Sadie, a disconsolate soul who attempts to end her life but is saved from doing so by Bancroft, a ship’s stoker. A romance springs up between the two, and how the coupiq ultimately find marital happiness serves to’ make the film surprisingly as we;ll as pleasingly entertaining.