AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“menl HUT HONEST”—'TO-NIGHT I'ox I* i 1 ms latest comedy drama. Rich Hut Honest,” an unusually interesting picture from several angles, will he shown at the Princess Theatre to-night. The cast is one of the most youthful which lias been featured in some time and includes a number of very brilliant performers who seem to play their roles with wholehearted sintcrity and sympathy. The story lias many new and unexpected twists and holds the absorbed attention of the audience from beginning to end. Humour, pathos and suspense are there in generous measure. It is all about a girl of the middle class, average American family, played bv Natiev Nash, and her two admirers. The rich young man. played by diaries Norton, and Iho garage mechanic played by Clifford Holland. Ted McNamara, who made a sensational hit with his interpretation of the fun-loving marine in “ What Price Glory,” has an important and humorous role as Holland’s partner and elium, while Marjorie Hcebe is cast in an equally humorous part as Miss Nash’s friend. licsides these young people, .1. Earrel Macdonald, one of the toughest of “ Three Had Men,” gives a side-splitting performance as a liroadway theatrical manager. Doris Lloyd has the important role of his wife. Tyler Brooke is cast as Harney Zoon, Macdonald’s secretary and “ves” man, and Ernies Shields as Archie. “ I!ich Hut Honest” has proved itself to be genuine entertainment. A picture that is unusually well east and directed with a story that holds attention and many scenes of rare beauty, as for example, the Revue of a Broadway Roof Garden.

A topical and comedy complete the display. Coming Friday.—Priscilla Dean in “The Dice Woman.”