AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODYB PICTURES.

«« FOUR SONS ” TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY).

fitsge,,especially Jn the past few years, .has .prpvidod. notable examples of actresses who continued to act well on. into old age, and still held their audiences, Sarah Bernhardt and Elea-

nqrat (Dus#. are. , illbstriouf examples w jj|ch; .immediately leap to the mm 3. Duae .returned.,to .the .stage after having virtually retired, going to America to meet a new triumphy-rind ultimately ,yfier,- death— she needed mpn^!‘td'.rehabilitate a fortune shaken, by, the war. ■ Bernhardt continued to appear', on 'the - stage; • dOspite. the' great handicap -of an amputated leg, because, of rsilriikif economic pressure, much of hpr. monby having been lavished on her son, Maurice. , Likewise Ellen Terry has gone on playing occasionally despite ~ her years, due to * the, need of funds.*' Then there’s Mrs Thomas Whiffen, still an ornament to the American ‘Stage, in ;spite- of her advanced, age; though Mrs-Wliiffen is well provided • for, and 'acts primarily be- • cause she loves the theatre. None of these players had to undergo the nerveracking experience of Margaret Mann', new Fox leading woman in V Four Sons,” which-will be . shown at' the Princess Theatre tonight. - Miss Mann had to take up.vthe films as a new career when past :the half-century mark, and had to wait for ten years as an extra before- she’ found her niche in ; this John Ford production., She ' was ! not fortified by past training in public - performances, as were all the distinguished stars previously mentioned;. Moreover, they all attained a definite, prestige long, before they were even middle-aged, and its glamour’'carried them with its momentum well on into' their declining days. Hence the . belated ViCShfevement of Miss Mann is considered in show circles to be correspondingly: noteworthy. .;Specia’l -prices again’ to-night: Circle J2s, Stalls Is Bd,-children under-12, 6d.