ENTERTAINMENTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 601, 21 January 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

STRAND PICTURES. TO-NIGHT (FRIDAY). After you do your shopping tonight come to the Strand and see “ Dad Hayseeds at the Melbourne I Cup.” Old man Hayseed trains Cornstalk for the Cup, and the ' trainer thins down the fat boy to 1 lido him. That's where the fun 1 conies in. Beaumont-Smith’s latest fun-tickler from Australia is a winner. But the fat jockey is a whole scream by himself. 1 TO-MORROW NIGHT (SATURDAY). “UNDER CRIMSON SKIES.” The most popular stories and pictures arc those of romance and adventure out-of-doors. It’s a longtime since the screen has seen a really lino romance of the sea. Have you ever soon a hurricane? A real one? In this remarkable, human ac-tion-drama there is pictured a sea storm that bears no comparison with any other filmed in all the annals of photography. Ail the swash and splash, all the roar of a squally, roll- , ing, terrifying gale at night is here 111 meet with a fidelity that is creating nothing short of a sensation wherever shown. The greatest sea story ever! filmed, one that you will enjoy from start to finish. Also, a rollicking I comedy, “His Master’s Breath,” and I other supports. i | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th. I ! ENID BENNETT IN “PARTNERS THREE.” | A story of the hot, parched sands 1 of the desert, where few men ever 1 j tread. “Ripa ml Stitch, TNailors,” a I Mack Sennett comedy, and “Straw j Weavers in the Tropics” .(scenic), ; “ Lightning Raider,” No. 7 (“Smashes of Evil”). ODDFELLOWS’ HALL. TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY). “SPORTING LIFE." Harassed by debt, John, Earl of Woodstock, conceives two plans, by which ho may make his fortune and regain his financial standing. A j thorough sportsman, ho is interested in boxing, and he wagers huge sums * on Joe Lee, a gipsy boxer, and upon j Lis horse, Lady Love, to win the Derby. llis sworn enemy, De Carteret, determines to ruin the Earl by j frustrating both chances open to him it) become wealthy. He forces his . wife, Olivo, to attempt to make Joe : Lee cease training for his ring fight. Kitty Cavanagh, daughter of the .Earl’s head trainer, loves Lee, not wisely, but too well, and when Olive begins to draw Lee into her toils, sbe runs away to London, where she attempts to commit suicide by jumping 1 into the Thames. Olivo arranges to j have Lee drugged by Kitty’s father ’ just as he steps into the ring, and this plan might have succeeded in 1 ruining- the Earl, had he not entered ; the ring himself and fought a win- , ning battle to a victorious finish. ! De Cateret then decides to steal , Lady Love, and thereby disqualify the Earl at the Derby, and to render , this doubly sure ho causes the Earl j to be kidnapped and held prisoner : aboard an old feiry boat. Norah Cavanagh, the fiancee of the Earl, , learns of the kidnapping of the Earl and his horse, and she sets the , machinery in operation by which both ’ arc rescued in time for the great race, which Lady Love wins, in spite of the fact that the mare is nearly ; left at the post. De Cateret is ruined, while the Earl’s fortune is restored. All ends happily for the Earl and Norah, and while Lee makes amends to Kitty, the former cole- - -ki-tittj—feheli*—mry feral-- —- - -