ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3269, 7 March 1931, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-NIGHT AND MONDAY,

" EYES OF THE WORLD."

If it could claim nothing more than its beautiful outdoor setting of Santa Ynez Canyon, in South California, the fLm story "Eyes of the World," which is the feature of the programme to be screened at the Empire Theatre to-night and Monday, wou.d be well worth seeing. In a virginal settmg of stern, rugged mountains, with their stark peaks and treacherous passes, where rushing streams pass through sleepy valleys, there is much of Nature to arouse admiration. . But " The Eyes of the World " relies only partly for-its success upon this wondonderful scenery. Harold Bell Wright, from whose story the picture is adapted, has woven into Nature's moods a romantic drama which strongly appeals both to eye and emotion. There is something different from the everyday indoor drama produced in the studio, something refreshingly good, something that the regular picture fan will enjoy to the full. The story, which is gripping and overflowing with thrilling situations, deals with a period when unrequited love cut much more deeply than to-day.

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. The greatest names of stage and screen combine in the widely-herald-ed production of " Whoopee," the Samuel Goldwyn-Florenz Ziegfeld musical riot which comes to the Empire Theatre on Tuesday for four nights. Its sponsors are respectively the greatest pioneer of the motion picture in America and the musical comedy king of. the. American stage. Its star, Eddie Cantor, is known wherever there are theatres as a comic artist of genius. In its stage form, produced by Mr Ziegfeld in New York, with Cantor in the lead, it ran over a year and a-half. Included in its cast are Eleanor Hunt, the red-haired beauty whom' Samuel Goldwyn considers one of his greatest finds, Dorothy Knapp, famed " most beautiful girl in the world." Paul Gregory, 25,000-dollar tenor, Ethel Shutta, and such famous Ziegfeld glorified girls as Jeanne Morgan, Muriel Fimey and Virginia Bruce. Thornton Freeland, brilliant young director who is known as one of the fastest rising people of Holywood, directed this picture. The stage production of " Whoopee" made New York gasp by its lavish bealuty. In the freer medium of the talking screen " Whoopee" has outdone even its stage incarnation. Such internationally famous beauty spots as Zion National Park furnished the backgrounds for the outdoor scenes. Seventy-four changes of scene, 512 different changes of costume, scenes in which four and five hundred people were concerned, are figures which give some idea of the scale with which the Goldwyn-Ziegfeld combination have gone about bringing the fruit of their different experiences into focus for this one picture.