ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 December 1924, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. “THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK. ’ “The Girl Who Caane Back’’ is an' elaborate; screen. •version of tlie stage production of the same title. Cast, production and unusuaiiv beautiful photography .art# m tvsej.-ing, yyith the colourful story of thrills , and' heart throbs unfolded with their aid. Miriam Cooper, more beautiful than, ever, Kenneth Harlan, and Gaston Glass—both recent acquisitions of, the Preferred organisation—Joseph Howling, Z& Six Pitts, Eethel Shannon* and Fred Malatestai, make up the scintillating company of players used to interpret the story. . The untangling of an unusual situation provides the, cast, and Toni Forman, the director of the feature, with splendid opportunities for a, number of tense situations. The programme includes a capital., comedy, “Skylarking-” OPERA HOUSE. NEXT WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. WONDERS OF “CHU CHIN CHOW.” “Chu Chin Oliow,” the new Graham Wilcox Production which will be shown at the O'pera. House next Wednesday and Thursday, is known as the world’s wonder “British picture.’’ . It is bv far the most ambitious production which has yet been made in Europe, and is a real and successful attempt to rival the greatest super-films of Hollywood. . > The stair is Betty Blythe, who is best known by her performance in “Queen of Sheba” in a big Fox picture. She plays Lily Brayton’s part, Zahrat. Herbert Langley, the- Beechatn Opera Baritone, who has taken to films and has leapt into the ranks of stardom right away, is Ghu Chin Chow; and other®:; in the cast are Eva Moore, Riandle Ayrton (The Shakespearean actor), Jameson Thomas, Judd Green,, and Dacia, the dancer. Over four thousand people acted in “Ghu Chip Chow” and a whole shipload of dromedaries was brought from Persia, for the desert scenes, not to speak of Afab horses, elephants, lions, yaks, water buffaloes, and other curious beasts The settings are veiy ambitious. - Ten or twleve acres af old Bagdad were constructed forsome of the scenes, and One building large as St. Paul’s Cathedral, -without the dome. Apart from the artists, alone, the Great South Gate, was as “Chu Chin Chow” kept several thousand workmen busy for four months. “Chu Chin Oliow” and Frederic Norton’s- beautiM music are' inseparable, and the genius of the producer has linked the score with the movements oti the screen in such a manner that the music and the action, synchronise, and the spirit of the music, which is the rery essence of the mysterious and romantic East of Haroun-al-R(asohid’s day, pervades the whole production and maintains perfect atmosphere. A specially prepared score bv Mr. G. J. Raffills will be used for the occasion. Patronsare advised to book their seats to avoid being disappointed.