ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 March 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE

“LES MISERABLES ’ ’ TO-NIGHT

The Universal Film do France production has been secured by the Opera House management for screening tonight, to-morrow and Wednesday. “Les Miserables,” produced by the Societe des Cineromans of Paris, is of epic proportions. It is said to have taken more than two years to produce, at a cost into millions of francs. Many of the scenes of the French super picture were taken on the exact locations indicated by Victor Hugo in the novel. This entailed the necessity of reconstructing the main streets of the towns and villages in which the action takes place, to appear as they did a century ago. So intense was the interest of the French nation in the success of the gigantic motion picture enterprise that permission was readily granted by town authorities so that the reconstruetors might do their work unhampered, even to the extent, in one case, of taking up a section of pavement and laying cobble stones. The streets of Paris could not, of course, be reconstructed, but massive sets were built that are said to be remarkable for their fidelity to the period represented. Leading actors from the French stage were engaged to portray the characters created by Hugo, Gabriel Gabrio appearing as Jean Valjean. The box plan is now open at Miss Blake’s.