AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1923, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL, i Josie Sedgwick, in “The Man Hunter,” will be screened, at the Town Hall to-night for the last time Wednesday’s attraction is a brajid. new Paramount production, Hush Money,” starring Alice Brady. Hie supporting pictures include a further hatch of our West Coast Beauty Girls.

OPERA HOUSE. How a woman’s beauty can be almost fatal to her happiness and future is. shown dramatically m “How Women Love,” Betty Blythe’s latest starring vehicle at the Opera ‘House on Wednesday. Helen of Greece, .Cleopatra, and Marie Antoinette were all beautiful women who paid terribly for the lure which their beauty was to men. In “How Women Love,” Miss Blythe has the role of a young prima donna gifted with a “dangerous capacity for loving,” who finds only just before it is too late that true love is better than the admiration of selfish, sophisticated men, who have lost all freshness and purity from their viewpoint. Miss Blythe is given the opportunity to wear gorgeous gowns and to prove again that she is fully what her admirers have called her—“ The best looking and the best dressed star on the screen.” As “Rosa Roma ’ the young prima donna, she proves also that she has a better gift than her looks and her ability to wear gowns. She can act. The supporting items include a new batch of the Beauty Competition. “ROBIN HOOD.” The world will never forget the screen version of “Robin Hood”! It is a stupendous undertaking, depicting the glories of a by-gone age, successfully accomplished. It runs over the spoken' drama like a deluge! Here they visualise. ancient England with all its glory, they watch the knightly crusaders with their standard-bearers marching on to conquer other lands, and they look',in amazement at huge battlements, gigantic drawbridges, over impassable moats, and they gaze spellbound at great stone walls, whose height "and solidity fills one with awe, but most interesting of all is the likeable story which filters through a maze of kaleidoscopic scenes and dramatic incidents, forever holding the spectators in a trance from which they do not wish to awaken. “Robin Hood” will be shown on Monday.

It is a long time sipce a children's fancy dress ball was held in Greymouth, these functions in the past having been very few. To-morrow evening, however, Mrs. J. W. Hannan is organising a children’s ball in St. Columba Hall, and has been promised donations for prizes for the best fancy dresses. The function is to commence at 7.30,. and the Grand March will take place at 8 o’clock. The price of admission, is only 1/-, and and with liberal prizes for the best costumes, the promoters expect a large number of children to attend.