AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1923, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. Ilex Beach To-night.—‘-The iron Trail,” a seven-reel super feature, adapted from the mighty novel by Ilex Beach will be shown at the Opera House to-night for the last time. This titanic red-blooded drama was supervised to the making by ilex beach himself. , , ‘•A Tale of Two Worlds. —Gouvemeur Morris has an international reputation for building an exciting story and thq photoplay adaption of the ‘ Tale of Two Worlds” is a line example of his work. It screens Wednesday. No expense has been spared in" the' gorgeous Eastern settings and the elaborate care taken to get Chinese customs is a credit to the Goldwyn. Company. Beatrice Joy as the little white girl who, rescued during a Boxer rising, is brought up to believe herself Chinese, is very alluring, but, alter all the highest marks of the play go to Wallace. Beery as the sinister Tong chieftain. Believed by grim humour, his wickedness is a strange but faithful picture of the Oriental mind in its manifestation. The last reel of the drama is sensational to the last degree and the play as a melodrama must be regarded as a high class entertainment. REVEILLE.

An event of paramount importance theatrically will be the 1923 Reveille, which will be staged at the Opera House for a season of seven nignts, commencing on Thursday, August 2. Although tne name remains the same, the programme changes atfer every second performance. The production is under the auspices of the Grey U.S.A., and the profits will go to the Old People’s Home. A similar production was packed at Christchurch and Dunedin for a season of sixteen nights, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Napier, Hastings, Masterton, and Gisborne for ten nights each, Dannevirke, Oama.ru, Nelson, Blenheim and Thames for nine nights each. The following will give a rough idea of the nature of the brilliant spectacle:— “Christchurch Press” :‘‘Our Reveille”

is wholly a spectacular production, but there is a softening, soothing, entrancing grace about its staging—in dress,, in lighting, and in gliding movement —that holds the audience intensely interested. That Christchurch amateurs could rise to the heights which they have reached, after so brief and necessarily hurried a preparation, was certainly not dreamt of by some. —Amongst the ballets to be staged will be the Dashing Russian, Dictator Pierrot, Comedy Scarecrow, Dainty Bon-Bon, Quaint Snow, smart military had the bewitching dolls. Tickets now on sale may be exchanged for a reserved seat free of charge when the plan, opens at the Bristol.