ENTERTAINMENTS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4696, 9 May 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. rllE SELF-MADE WIFE. The locale of the Universal all star pkotop'ay "The Self-Made Wife" shifts troin a lowly shack in the oil fields of Texas to a mansion in New York. It is the story of a ptor couple who slaved and struggled to savte a few dollars with which to buy oil stock. One day an oil gusher made them immensely rich. They moved to New York, purchased a fashionable home, and began a new mode of living, To her the life in the city was artificial. She came to believe thac there could be no happiness in the city, uespite the luxury of her new surroundings, but eventually learned that friendships can be just as true and happiness just as complete in a city of millions as in a community where everybody calls everybody else by his first name. SATURDAY NIGHT, BELLA DONNA. Pola Negri in "Bella Donna," her first American-made picture, widen is to I c screened to-morrow night, is an attraction that exhibitor,s and the motion picture public of this country will welcome with enthusiasm. Never has this celebrated screen star bee t seen in a more powerful or appealing story than is developed in "Bel'a Donna.” In respect to production, set-' tings, photography, heart interest, character portrayals, and all-round artisliy. this feature is one of tl’.o greatest ever presented to the amusement world. In it Tola Negri, the heroine of “Passion” and many othei notable picture successes, is presented in a new light—glorious, flashin r , vital, and magnetic. In this, her first A’nerii an-made photoplay ?<da Negri’s superb art finds its highest and most winsome exprcssi»w. 1! “Bella Donna” isn't a knock-out, then faith in the finest standards of motion picture art is a dream.