AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 22 March 1929, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE ‘ • U NCLE TOM ’S. CABIN ’ ’ [, (Since the first stage presentation -of “Undo Tom’s Cabin” iiearlv seventy years ago, it is estimated that over 220 “Tom Shows’’ have taken to (the road It -seems that there is uo lessening oi the popularity of this play. Many stock companies, finding themselves in need of funds, are still putting on the play to recoup lossgs anid .• invariably [reap success. The gigantic picturisa tian of the Harriet Beecher -Stowe- no yel, a Universal Super-Jewel producjtion, will be screened for the two lasi times to-day—at -a special matinee this afternoon and again at night at 7.45, An all-star cast has been assembled for ithe picture, including such players as Margarita Fischer, Arthur Edmund Carew, John Roche, Gertrude A-stor, Lucien Littlefield, George iSiegmann, Mona Ray, Virginia Grey, Eulalie JenJ. Gordon Russell, Ai-leen Manning, Jack Mower, Vivien Oakland and iothers. J “Excess Baggage, McGowan’.9 graphic play of vaudeville life is coming !on Saturday to the Cosy Theatre. In [this picture, in which William Haines plays on the screen, the parts o-f the vaudeville players are prototypes of the famous stars of the vaudeville of a day now gone. The rise of the motion picture and other factors eliminated them—to-day few indeed tof the vaudevillians of a few Short years ago can be found. OPERA HOUSE Coming to the Opera House next 1 Monday for a limited season of three nights is the picture that Masterton is talking about. “A Daughter of Masterton” was recently completed here 1 by Mr Rudall Hayward, the well-known pioneer film producer and the cast is ‘ comprised wholly of local players. The ’ leading -feminine role is played by Miss Claire St. Clair, the well-known professional actress, and she is ably sup- ’ ported by Edward Newland as { the dashing, wild-riding hero,’ and Gordon Trevellyn, as the villainous “reporter.” AH who took part in this amateur production filled their respective parts with distinct credit. Also in “A Daughter of Masterton” are five hundred school children, besides the local fire brigade, a number of daring horsemen and ten pretty local girls. On the same programme is -a joyous comedy, starring Reginald Denny. “The Night Bird” is a very amusing story of a girl-shy prize fighter who is forced to mingle in New York's night life Seats for this excellent programme 1 may be reserved at Vare’s music house. TO-NIGHT ONLY Romance and drama are blended in “The Mating Call,” which will be ■shewn for to-night only at the Opera House. “The Mating Call” is the stirring film dramatisation of the famous novel by Rex Beach. The story deals with a hard-working Floridia farmer, who, disappointed in l-ove, seeks a woman to help with his farm. He marries a waif of a girl, whom he finds at Ellis Island and, in the subsequent trials and tribulations that befall them on the Florida farm, he learns to love her and she him. It affords Meighan one of the greatest characterisations of his career. “The Mating Call” -is rich in love-interest, and Meighan is presented with dual .feminine support in the pretty persons 'of Evelyn Brent and Renee Adoree, Misg Brent as a eharming society queen and Miss Adoree as a comely Russian