ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 November 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, HAWERA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NEXT. HAROLD LLOYD' IN “SAFETY LAST.” The long-awaited Harold Lloyd comedy, Safety Last,” will have its initlaL screening at the Opera House on Wednesday next. This comedy of comedies has had a wonderful reception wherever shown, “Day by day in every way I’m getting braver and braver.” That is what Harold Lloyd repeated during the filming of his latest feature comedy, “Safety Last.” In the action of “Safety Last” Harold climbs the side of a skyscraper, and to do this and not bring a serious injury to himself the comedian /put his new version of Dr. Ooue’s theory into practice Lloyd figured that anyone could walk across a board when it is on the ground, or when it is raised a few feet. But place this board across an are away twelve istories, or so from the ground and the feat would /be almost impossible. To overcome this, Lloyd practised for >ai number of weeks, each time having the board raised higher and insisting to himself that “day by day he was becoming braver and braver.” And then the day for the filming came. The location was twelve stories from the street with the thermometer registering 100 in. the shade —and there was no shade. Clinging to the side of the building was Harold Lloyd. Twenty feet out from the building, and tu r elve stories high was Walter Lundin, Lloyd’s head cameraman, shooting from a narrow balcony, roughly constructed. Sam Taylor am] Fred Nevvmeyer, co-directors, also took’ their /places on this blistering platform. For in “Safety Last” Harold Lloyd threw all caution to the winds. The whole first faction of it is laid in a department store, and few r ever realised what a fruitful stamping ground for comedy a department store is.