AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 17 March 1927, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. Again to-night Gloria Swanson appears in “The Untamed Lady.’* Miss (Van Tassel, a young society girl with an uncurbed temper and manner, has been engaged more time than she dare think of. Her \inele is almost tired of giving engagement dinners and when she announces. another fiance in Larry Gastie, he starts giving advice as well Larry makes an impression but although he gains a seeming victory over Miss Van Tassel, he pays for it later. He has to go on a business trip on has yacht and Gloria insists on going also. He is stern in his refusal, but finds she has persuaded the captain to let her aboard. He turns the ship t?bout and sets out to take her te New York. In her anger and devilment, she watches the man at the wheel and stands near the compass. At first the man is blamed for not keeping to the course, but at last they see that the compass is not behaving. A hasty search reveals a large and powerful' magnet in Gloria’s pocket. Her action causes the ship to run into a storm during which many of the crew are injured. After the storm, Gloria is forced into service in the engine room to make up for the injured men. Before the voyage is out it seems as if her will is broken. But at the dock she clears out and runs away. Larry follows and another battle of wills takes place at her hunting lodge but she manages an escape. Larry goes after h'er but his horse fails to negotiate a jump and he is injured. In hospital Gloria realises that she loves him and at last finds her spirit broken. A. Gazette, screen snapshops, and Glamis Castle complete the bill. Reserves at Henderson’s or theatre. Thonq 1288. OPERA. HOUSE. Last evening’s crowd was delighted with “Irene.” When Irene O’Dare, a wistfully beautiful Irish lass, lost her job she found an unexpected friend in Donald Marshall, scion of the wealthy Marshalls, who took an instant fondness for her and arranged with the ambitious proprietor of a newly established modiste’s shop to employ her as a model in return for his patronage. But when the proprietor brought his models to the Marshall home to participate in a charity fashion show, Donald discovered that she had been left behind to attend to the shop, being considered quite impossible as a mannequin by her employer. Donald has her array herself in a newly imported French creation and takes her to the affair, where she creates a sensation. Dubious as to her eligibility in her son’s set, Donald’s mother sends to'a genealogist for a report on her antecedents, but before this arrives Larry Hadley, whose unwelcome advances had once won for him the contempt of Irene, takes pleasure in spreading news as to Irene’s shopgirl past, thus strengthening the position of his sister Eleanor, between Donald and whom is a projected engagement. The report reaches Donald, and he gives it to Irene to peruse, just as his mother swoops down on her and denounces her as an imposter. Prices 2s, 1/6, 1/. Box plan at Henderson’s.