ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 November 1924, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. “BLACK OXEN.” Founded, as it were, on the text: “The years like great black oxen ' tread the world, and God, the herdsman, goads them on behind,” “Black Oxen,” which opens a two-night season at the Opera House to-night, is a thrilling society drama. Yet the picture is much more than a mere movie drama. It provides its morals as well as its entertainment. It shows the inexorable advance of Time. The older i generation and the rising generation act alongside the present, each with its different outlook. But there is one of the older, generation who has shed her years and once more blossomed out as the young- woman she was thirty years before—a . fascinating beauty. She, and a precocious modem flapper, are rivals for the hand of a cynical young newspaper man. He is in love with the miraculously rejuvenated lady with the beauty of a woman of 30 and the mind of a clever woman of 60, while he has “no time” for the flapper, whom he considers to be the silliest of the silly. The, young thing adds much spice to the play, and the fortunes of the two keep interest at its keenest all through. The rejuvenated woman is really a countess, and worldly power versus love wage an animated, contest. .The climax is dramatic and unexpected. The cast includes such artists as Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle with Clara Bow as the flapper. It is a splendid play, and is well supported by other films. “Hoot” Gibson in “Broadway or Bust” will be shown at. the matinee to-morrow (Saturday). KAPONGA PICTURES, TO-MORROW “SLANDER THE WOMAN.” Dorothy Phillips is the star of “Slander the Woman,” a. drama of the finest luality, showing to-morrow night: The jicture points the moral of the deadly power for eWI in gossip:, but this is orgotten in the intensely interesting dory of the young woman, unjustly dragged .into a murder case and falsely icensed of being responsible for the tragedy. Alone and friendless, she ) fights back: for a time she is. hopeless, and then something happens in the vilds of the Canadian north, where she has sought refuge; something unexpected that brings out the truth, re- ) fores her good name, and provides a. •liinax of gripping interestEMPRESS PICTURES. ‘‘NANOOK OF THE NORTH.’ ’ )KAIAWA To-night; 3f|ANAIA Tomorrow, matinee only. in a frozen wilderness, where no jther race could survive, utterly dependent upon animal life, live the most cheerful people in all the world — the fearless, lovable, happy-go-lucky Eskimo. W'e in far-away New Zealand xnow little of this small but sturdy ■ace. However, during a two years’ ixpedition into the frozen and desolate Ungava Peninsula, the northern limits if Labrador, Mr. R. J. Flaherty, F.R.G.S., noted engineer and exploi’er, secured a motion picture which deals exhaustively with the happy and peaceful life of the Eskimo. -It is named “Nanook of the North,” and is to be screened at Okaiawa to-night and Manaia to-morrow afternoon only; at 2 o’clock. “Nanook” and his family are always on the trek, and their adventures are as exciting as they are varied. Polar hears, seals, and walruses are the game that fall victims to the huntsman’s guile—Nanook’s weapons comprise a knife and a harpoon. The construction of an “igloo” or snow hat as shelter against an approaching blizzard is one of the features of the production. The scenic effects alone ire worth seeing, and it is no exaggeration to describe the film as a photographic achievement. Owing to the Town Hall, Manaia, being sublet to the Fisk Jubilee Singers for Saturday evening, the management regret that it is impossible to present “Nanook of the North” for more than one performance, namely, at 2 p.m., when everyone should take the opportunity of seeing this masterpiece.