ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5407, 5 April 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AURORA THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. THE MATING CALL. “The Mating Call” is, the stirring. Him dramatisation of the famous novel by Rex Beach. The story deals with a hard-working Florida farmqi who, disappointed in love, seeks a woman to help with his farm. He mairieg a waif off a girl whom he finds at Ellis. Island, and, in the subsequenttrials and tribulations that befall them on the Flouida farm, he learns to love her and she him-

SATURDAY NIGHT. POWDER MY BACK. A youth’s infatuation for a musical comedy actress, the method «he employs to restore him to his fianc.eq, and the way in which she wins over his father, whom she had previously sought to compromise because he 'had closed her show, go towards making, the plot of “Powdqr My Back,” Irene Rich’s latest, starring picture. RIDERS OF THE DARK. The story of “Riders of the. Dark” centres around the evil activities of a gang of Jaw-breakers in a small bolder town In the ’Bo’s, -more particularly with the fate that overtook the local newspaper owner, a fearless old man who bitterly attacked the gaiig, and his pretty young, daughter (played by Dorothy Dwan) who, with tin. aid of a cavalry officer, bring the gang to justice! a,nd find a romance of their own. TURUA PICTURES. THE BIG CITY. Tut mot row night at the Turua Hall Lon Chaney will be sqen in “The Big City.” This picture takes you right into the secret haunts of the underworld of a mighty gang in the heart of a throbbing city. It is the story of strife and the reformation of male and female crimnals, and is full of stirring incidents and rapid action. LADIES MUST DRESS. “Ladies .Must Dres.s,” showing on Tuesday night, is a delightful comedy romance of a girl who dressed) to keep warm and not to make herself, more beautiful. Until she found that the man she loved was a,shamed of her, then she gave him a lesson he would not soon forget.

SACRED CONCERT.

METHERTON HALL ON SUNDAY.

The Netherton Musical Society will render a sacred concert nt the Netherton Hall on Sunday qvening next, commencing at 8.30 o’clock. The admission is by silvei' collection.