ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 March 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE, TO-NIGHT

HAROLD LLOYD IN “GIRL, SHY.”

Last night a huge audience witnessed the first screening of “Girl .Shy.” Variety is the spice of life, and it i-s also the secret of success in making good pictures. Many stars fall into a rut because they insist upon making the same line of pictures and using the same kinds of characterisations. They never change, because they feel the "public is used to seeing them, in a certain type of picture. Such is not the case, however, with Harold Lloyd in his latest Master picture comedy, “Girl Shy.” Harold has fortunately discovered that ‘‘mixing them up a bit” is the secret of success. He has never made two comedies even remote’y alike, considering his big hits, “Dt. jack/’ “Safety Last,” “Why Worry?” and now “Girl Shy.” Now in Ids latest he has again striven for something different from anything he has _ ever made. He is seen in “Girl Shy” in an entirely novel characterisation, as a “bashful small town boy, who is an apprentice to his uncle, a tailor. He makes a secret study of girls, although not a very accurate one, and the more he studies them the more he fears them. He lia stried in “Girl Shy” to present a character who will instantly win the svmpathy of his audience through his humanness. A really dramatic story has been built around 1 this central figure of the boy and nothing lias been sacrificed to make the picture true to life in every small detail. And it .is attention to detail that helps largely to make the IToyd Master pictures the, big hits that they are. The season closes this evening.

NEW MUSICAL COMEDY SEASON. “LEAVE IT TO JANE.” On Friday, March 19, J. C. Williamson’s New Musical Comedy Company wi'l appear at the Opera House, Hawera, in “Leave it to Jane.” Lovers of good musical comedy, and their name is legion, are promised something finite out of the ordinary in the new J. C. Williamson production “Leave it to Jane.” A musical comedy built round a P. G. Wodehouse story is suggestive. of good healthy fun and refined humour.. In the matter of the music it is said that the famous light opera composer Jerome Kern has surpassed himself. According to an Australian contemporary, “Leave it to Jane” may be accepted! as a justifiable excuse for introducing Athol Tier, whose flexibility and other “bilities” to necessary in the other “bilities” so necessary in the make-up of a successful laugh-maker, enable him to carry the show which sparkles and effervesces from the rise of the first to the fall of the final curtain. A natural comedian both above and below the waist. Mr Tier is areal J.C.W. find. Dorothy Lena, a name wed-known in London musical comedy circles, makes her first appearance. She will May “Flora Wiggins.” Miss Lena comes with the very best of credentials : she is a singer, dancer and exceptionally clever cemedienne. Also will appear Miss Mona Barlee, who plays “Jane,” and, according to Aussie critics, .plays it amazingly well. Other clever people prominently cast are Misses Elma Gibbs, Minnie Tate, and Ethel Walker. The male cast is outstandingly good, artists such as Hugh Stevne, Levland Hodgson, Jack Cannot, Harry Wotton, Fred McKay, and Perev le Fre are names to c_onjur e with. “Leave it to Jane” wiU be played for one night only. The box plans will be opened at Cook’s Confectionery Store on Wednesday. March 17. On Wednesday. March 24, the company will return to Hawera and appear in another brilliant musical play, “Whirled Into Happiness.”