AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1923, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. The age-famous story of Robin Hood, and.' his Maid. Marian, told anew for twentieth century eyes, will be the tremendous attraction at the Opera House to-night at 8 p.ni. The world will never forget the screen version of “Robin Hood! 1 ’ It is a stupendous undertaking, depicting the glories of a by-gone age. There they visualise ancient England with all its glory, they watch the nightly 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 fill one with awe, but most interesting of all is the likable story which filters through a maze of kaleidoscopic scenes. Robin Hood and his merry crew, who took from the rich to aid the poor; his love for sweet Maid Marian; Sherwood Forest and Nottingham Town ; Friar Tuck and Little John with their staffs and cudgels —all etched out of the dim past and made to live again. Pollard’s full orchestra will be in attendance and the Prices will be 2s 2d, and Is Bd, and children 6d. TOWN HALL. “Rich Meli’s Wives,” a preferred picture -will be the big attraction at the Town Hall to-night. Advance information declares that this play turns the calcium on the s’ocial butterfly in much the same manner a scien-

tist would use a microscope on the winged species. When B. P. Schuluerg, decided to produce this story—inspired, it is said, by the unhappy revelations recently in one of America’s leading families— he chose Gasnier. maker of “Kismet’’ and other big pictures, to direct it. Then, he went seeking for a cast and selected House Peters, Claire Windsor, the reigning beauty of the screen tb-day ; Baby Richard Headrick., the unforgettable child artist; Rosemary Theby* Gaston. Glass, MyrtleStedman, Charles Clary. Mildred June, Carol Holloway, William Austin, and Martha Mattox. HUTCHINGS’ MEMORIAL. 1 The concert to be held in the Opera House on December* 13, in aid of the Hutchings Memorial Fund, promises to be one of the best ever staged in Greymouth- * A good variety of local talent will rpn*-- ite the programme, asisted by pupils of the Grey District High School and infants under the tuition of Miss. Skoglund. The re-ap-pearance of Mr Harry Beresford (comedian) and founder of the Greymouth Kohinoor Minstrel Troupe, will be a strong support in the way of comic items.