ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4439, 12 July 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. “THE SAPHEAD,” She was a very pretty, demure young thing who appeared so shyly appreciative of the tales of showland that. Buster Keaton, who appears as the wastrel son of the Wall Street financier in “The Saphead,” tp be screened to-night, found it very pleasant to explain about life at Metro’s West Coast studios in Hollywood, Cal. When stated she was making a collection of the .autographs of the leading motion picture stars the man who wears the comical mantle of Fatty Arbuckle without a smile declared he would be delighted tp give her a sample of; his signature. “That’s perfectly lovely of you,” she said with a smile. “Sign on this line and you will, receive, express paid, a set of twelve volumes of popular authors. You’-e the fifth one sold to-d,ay.” “Sold is right,” murmured Buster with a grin that he never shows in his comedies, as he signed “Buster Keaton, the Saphead." FRIDAY NIGHT. “THE FOX ” Harry Carey, in recognition of meritorious services in action before the camera, has been awarded the highest motion-picture honour. The famous Western hero of many a hard fought screen battle has been made a star of Universal-Jewel features. Carl Laemmle, president of the Universal Film Company, has conferred this excetpional honour on Carey's newest feature, “The Fox,” which is the attraction for Friday. “The Fox” is Harry Carey—every inch of him. Poweifiul, rugged, tattered, ragged, "The Fox” is of Carey’s creation. The story is his. He wrote it, gathering the material from his wealth of. picturesque experiences of the western range It is unusual in many respects Gripping, pulsating from the start, “The Fox” is one picture in a thousand. It is probably Harry Carey’s greatest epic of the West