ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 November 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT,

“BLACK OXEN.”

Frank Lloyd’s screen version of “Black Oxen/’ a First National picture, began a two-night season at tli6 Opera. House last night. “Black Oxen,” from the pen of Gertrude Atherton, because of. its originality and modern atmosphere, has been the best selling novel of 1923, and Mr. Lloyd is said, to have given it an elaborate pioturisation replete with surprising, incidents,- and enhanced by the visualization of characters, superbly described in the novel, but demanding real life to obtain proper appreciation. Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle share the featured parts in “Black Oxen.” Clara Bow, a newcomer to the screen, essays the role of Janet Oglethorpe, a Happens)] young individual who adds considerable spice to the story. A majority of the scenes of the film play are hod in New York’s social sphere, with flashes of the Austrian court brought into the theme for reference. More than 5000 people appear in the action of- the play, as audiences in three different- theatre scenes, in an elaborate cafe sequence and in direct support of the principals. Miss Griffith makes twenty-two complete changes of wardrobe during the action of the play, reviewers state, and her gowns, which cover a period of more than thirty years in fashions, are said to be unusual iy attractive. GRAND THEATRE TO-NIGHT. “BROADWAY OR. BUST.” A good cowiboy gone wrong offers a tonic of laughter in “Broadway or ’Bust,” Universal’s latest Hoot Gibson release, which opens at the Grand Theatre to-night. Gibson- is introduced as a poverty and love stricken cowboy. His girl jilts him because an inheritance of wealth elevates- her thoughts of romance to a field of a mor6 fashionably clothed strata. Later, the cowboy has a chance to return his sweetheart’s high-toned tactics by snubbing her, when his own financial ship comes in. They patch up their quarrel, hut the path of their romance is strewn with laughs and a hit. of adventure. Gibson’s whimsical personality has never prompted more and hearty laughs than it does in this production.

THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS

A SPLENDID COMBINATION

The Fisk Jubilee Singers received a most flattering reception at Manaia, when a very large 'house showed its approval in no uncertain manner. Indeed, it is not an exaggeration to say that the reception accorded these international artists was greater than that of any company seen in Manaia for many a year. There is po doubt about the hold plantation songs and negro spirituals Jiave on the average individual, and this was evinced in a manner that wa.s highly gratifying to the artists. In response to numerous requests the Fisk Jubilee Singers will appear again at Manaia to-night and give a complete change of programme.