STAGE AND SCREEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 13

STAGE AND SCREEN.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Sir Harry Lauder’s next “farewell” tour of the Dominion will commence at Auckland in April. Rosina Bnckman and her husband, Maurice d’Oisly, send greetings to friends in New Zealand. Their address is 28 Aylestone Avenue, Brondesbury Park, London.

Cable advice has been received from Mr. Roland Foster, of the New South Wales State Conservatorium, that Aliss Ethel Osborn, who is well known to the musical public of New Zealand, will make a farewell tour jirior to her departure for Europe. The tour will commence in Auckland about March 1.

Mr. Robert Geddes, a young Aucklander, who went to England for experience on the stage, has achieved considerable success in “The Little Fishermaid,” but it is not very likely that the comedy will be seen in London, states a London correspondent. He has been engaged to play Harry Welch’s part in “The Street Singer,” with which he will tour the provinces.

Madame Elsa Stralia is about to visit the land of her birth to give a series of concerts, and afterwards she will tour New Zealand. Madame Stralia has made a wonderful reputation both in New York and in London. She is at present fulfilling engagements in London, '".here she recently arrived after a brilliant two years’ sojourn in New York. Stralia is now at the height of her career and with her honours thick upon her.

PARS ABOUT PICTURES. ‘ ‘The Alaskan” is one of the early subjects in Paramount’s first Famous Forty to be released in New Zealand. It is' a Thomas Meighan picture. The story is adapted from the novel of the same name by James Oliver Curwood, and Estelle Taylor is the leading lady.

“Monsieur Beaueaire,” with Rudolph Yalentino, will be released in New Zealand at an early date. Those who have been waiting for the return of the star are promised in this magnilicant drama of the fighting heraldic days of Louis XV something that simply dazzles in its magnificence. Supporting Valentino will be Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, and Doris Kenyon.

Said to be in the same category as “The Ten Commandments,” “Searamouehe,” from the master hand of Rex Ingram, will be released in New Zealand this year by Paramount. Those who remember “The Four Horsemen” will at once detect the work of the master in “Scaramouche.” Adapted from the works of Rafael Sabatini, this story of the days of the French Revolution is said to be one of the masterpieces of the modern' screen.

Exactly twenty-five years ago the then newly-formed Vitagraph Company gave birth to the very first motion picture which told a story. Some time after, Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton, the originators, “found” Betty Blythe, a beautiful young lady who had intended to go in for musical comedy and had studied in Paris to this end. Betty was given a part in a two-reel 0. Henry adaptation, called “The Brief Debut of Tildy.” ’Hie latest Betty Blythe picture is “The Breath of Scandal,” in which this popular artist, has many opportunities to display her marvellous “dress” sense.

Prizes to the total value of £'GSO are being offered by Welsh Pearson and Co., the celebrated British Film Company, in conjunction with the London Referee, for a film story to feature Betty Balfour. Of this sum £250 will be paid to the competitor whose story or scenario is considered most suitable to this famous actress. If the film is produced within two years a further £250 will lie paid to the author, “the copyright for all purposes and throughout the world” lying with Welsh Pearson.

“How to Educate a Wife,” should prove helpful to husbands who have spent a lifetime trying to bring their wives up the way thev should go, and have made a successful failure of it. Marie Prevo.st and Monte Blue co-star.

Six reels of pure farce at its cleverest and funniest, that’s “Why Worry.” It is all about one of those revolutions that explode every one in a while in South America, and that means that there is a full measure of romance and adventure of thrill's and suspense.