AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 16 December 1924, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. TOM MIX SCORES. Tom Mix, the hcio of a hundred western films comes to Opera House on Wednesday for a three-night season in n Thc Lone Star .Ranger,’* adapted from the well known Zane Grey novel. There is not a dull mom* ' ent in the unravelling' of the romantic story of love, adventure and the i life of the Texas Rangers who kept i the peace of the Lone Star State. Assisted by “Tony” the brightest horse ever seen in motion pictures, Mix ambles through a series of thrilling sequences. Billie Dove, the feminine lead, was formerly with Florenz Ziegfeld’s Follies at the Amsterdam : Roof in New York and her support is flawless. The picture was directed • and the .scenario written by Lambert i Hillyer. Seats may be reserved at Henderson’s. COSY DE LUXE. ’ Hollywood’s, latest sensation—ol- • ways a pcrsonal one—involved a quest • for the twelve most beautiful screen “unknowns” on the West- Coast. Officials of thiee picture organisations set out to find a dozen of the most beautiful—and most promising—girls in the film cauital. The twelve girls who were finally selected by the committee were immediately engaged to appear in “Maytime,” whichc will be seen at the Cosy Theatre to-night, esides tßhe twelve girls, the cast includes Harrison Ford, leading man in “Little Old New York,” Ethel Shan- ; non, Clara ow, William Norris, Wallace MacDonald, and others.