ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 November 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE “CALL OF, THE WILD.” Jack London’s immortal story has been brought to the screen by 20th Century Pictures for release through United Artists, in a way that will delight all picture-goers of every age. Colourful characters, colourful portrayals and beautiful natural scenic backgrounds endow “Call of the Wild,’’ which screens at the Opera House to-night for a three-night season, matinees daily, 2 p.m., with distinction as a picture of the romance in the great outdoors. It blends human nature with the melodramatic, and becomes eventually a study of the conflict between love and duty. The adaptation of the story to the screen has been given the refreshing crispness and virility that the popular story of the turbulent passions of human nature in the snow-bound Yukon goldfields demands. Clark Gable has the leading Tole as Jack Thornton, the handsome swashbuckling prospector, and his performance stands out as the finest of his career. Loretta Young is Claire Blake, the sheltered young. society woman, who casts her lot with Thornton and his pal, Shorty Hoolihan, when her husband is lost in- the Arctic wastes, and Jack Oakio is at his best as the wisecracking Hoolihan.

GRAND THEATRE. “CARAVAN.” Madcap romance, enacted against the lavish and colourful background of life in the Vineyards of Europe, to the haunting, tantalising strains of native melodies! Briefly, it is reported, this describes “ Caravan,” ,Erik Chgrell’s first picture for Fox Film, which is coming to the Grand Theatre to-morrow, 2 p.m., for a two-night season. Boasting settings of vivid beauty, a story centring about the romance of a devil-may-care nomadic songmaker and a lovely young a notable csst gnd exquisite music, “Caravan’? promises to reveal itself as something eminently distinguished in the field of film epteftainment. Charles Hoyer, idol of povie fans on the Oontipent, makes his starring debut as a captivating song-maker who loves and is loyed by a beauti- ■ ful and capricious epumtess. in the latter Tole will be seen the dazzling Loretta Yopng; while the ravenhaired Jegn Parker appears as Tinka, the other girl, Phillips Holmes, in the role of a ddshing young lieutenant, completes the foursome of principal players. Others in the least are Eugene Pallotte, C. Aubrey Smith, Charley Grapewin, Noah Beery, Dudley Diggers, Richard Carle, Lionel Belmore, Billy Bevan, Armand Kaliz and Harry 0. Bradley. Also showing, episode 13 of “Red Rider.”