ENTERIAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5

ENTERIAINMENTS.

QFERA HOUSE; TO-NIGHT. ' THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK.” “The Girl Who Came Back,” Tom loi man s elaborate screen versiofa of the stage production of the same title, proyed a completely satisfying ottering at the Opera. House, where it bad its - local premiere last evening. Miriam < cooper, more beautiful than ever. Ken- & neth. Harlan, and Gaston Glass—both, recent acquisitions of the fckdiulberg: organisation—Joseph Dowling, Za Su ritts, Ethel Shannon, and bred Malatesta, make up tile scintillating company off players used to interpret the stoiy.- Ihe story involves the regenerate 11 of a gill whose efforts to clean tne slate of her life form the nucleus ioi m uch dramatic action, carrying the spectator from the slums of a big eastern city to southernmost Africa. There nm °f the world,” is foughti a battle extending back to New York, where the climax occurs. The siipportmg programme i s excellent. ;

OPERA HOUSE. TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY. “CHU CHIN CHOW.” The British producers send out another challenge to Hollywood with the wonderful British Master Picture, “Chu Ohm Chow,” produced froth, the famous Oscar Asehe play, iby Herbert Wilcox for Graham 'Wilcox, productions. “Chu Chin Chow” is now -a household word. That engaging '.robber is almost better known than Robin Hood or Dick Turpin. The stage play ran for five years in London and three years in New . York, and all over the world was, a phenomenal success. Unfortunately, Hawera missed the play, and it has been left to the screen to present this spectacular production to Hawera. The star 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 Beecham Opera baritone, who has taken to films and has ! leapt into the ranks of stardom right away, is Chu Chin Chow; and' other® in the cast are Eva Moore, Randle Wrton (the Shakespearean actor), Jameson Tlionuys, Judd Green, and Dacia, the daiicbr. Over four thousand people acted in “Chu Chin Chow” and a whole .shipload of dromedaries was brought from Persia for the desert scenes, not to speak of Arab horse's, elephants.'lions, yaks, water buffaloes,' and other curious beasts The settings are very ambitious. Ten or twelve' acres of old Bagdad were constructed for some of the scenes, and one building alone, the Great South Gate,' was. as large as St. Paul’s Cathedral, withouturn, d °r?, e - *P art the artists, Chu Ohm Chow” kept several thousworkmen busy for four, months. Chu Ohm Chow ’ and ■ Frederic Norton s beautiful music are inseparable and the genius of the producer has link2, the score with the movements on the screen in such a manner that the music and the action synchronise, and the spirit of the music, which, is the very essence of the mysterious and romantic East of Ha rou n-al-R!aschid’s clav. pervades the whole .production and maintains perfect atmosphere. A specially prepared score bv Mr. G ,T Raffills will be u*ed for the occasion.’ Patrons are advised to book their seats to avoid being disappointed.