ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4789, 15 December 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME “The Hunchback ’of Notre Dame,” which won the unqualified praise of New. York critics, being generally hailed as the finest achievement of the age, will be shown to-night. Throughout the Hugo masterpiece runs a beautiful lotfe story—certain changes were made in the production in order to avoid, offending any particulai religions body, but these changes have been endorsed by all who have seen the production. Lon Chaney plays the stellar part of "Quasimodo,” with Ernest Torrence as “Clopin, the underworld king,” and Patsy Ruth Miller as "Esmeralda.” Seventy-two other noted performers have featured parts, while two hundred players interpret smaller roles with the mob scenes numbering slightly in excess of 3500 persons. Some idea of the immensity of the production can be obtained when it is stated that the entire Cathedral of Notre Dame was reconstructed at Univens,al City, as well as eight blocks of Parisian, streets and houses of the time ol Louis XI. The total cost was a trifle less than 1,500',000 dollars.