AT THE EMPIRE.

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3468, 19 May 1934, Page 12

AT THE EMPIRE.

AGAIN TO-NIGHT AND MONDAY. “ HOOPLA.” Clara Bow is now at the Empire Theatre in her second starring picture for Fox Film, “ Hoopla.” This production scheduled for an engagement of three days, is the screen adaptation of John Kenyon Nicholson’s stage success, “ The Barker.” The screen version was written by Bradley King and Joseph Moncure March. Frank Lloyd, widely heralded as the maker of “ Cavalcade ” and “ Berkeley Square,” is the director of this new Clara Bow film. The background of the story is a country carnival, and it presents Miss Bow with a pew type of environment. Against'its ever-changing nature, she offers what has been heralded as her most important role on the screen. She plays the part of a carnival dancer who sets out to win the love of a young man worlds removed from carnival life. She starts on her venture as the result of a wager but finds herself enmeshed in a romance that is entirely strange to her. It has a . wholesomeness and a sincerity with which she is wholly unfamiliar. It is the' method in which this experienced woman works out her life to encompass a simple love that provides Clara Bow with what is reported as the perfect vehicle. Miss Bow heads a cast that includes a number of Hollywood’s most attractive personalities.