AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

4- . ' \EVERYBO DYB PICTURES. • _ “THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN” -TO-NIGHT. With one. exception, former stage celebrities compose the cast of First National’s screen version of the famous play, “ The Butter and Egg Man.” «Thbk Miilhall, noted.. for years in “ legitimate ” and Vaudeville, is feain the title role of the picture. /His beautiful young leading "lady, \Greta Nissen, however, earned her fame in pictures. Although her first appearance was as a dancer in Winjthrbp Amts’ production of “ Beggar on Horseback.” Sam Hardy has played every variety of speaking stage part in Bis career behind the footlights, although it was in vaudeville that he became particularly celebrated. William Pemarest, who is paired with Hardy as one of the play producers of the story, is of the famous vaudeville team of Demarest and Gertrude Astor graduated into pictures after achieving wide recognition as a musical comedy and legitimate stage leading woman. Miss Astor is the Mrs Lehman of “The Butter and Egg Man.” Added to that, Richard Wallace, noted film director who presided at the megaphone during the filming of “The Butter and Egg Man,” has acted upon the stage, has written, directed and produced stage plays. The plot of “ The Butter and Egg Man ” takes the spectator behind the sceries of play production, into the offices of producers, the dressing-rooms of stars, and behind the scenes of theatres. It is particularly fitting, then, that stage players should enact the principal roles of the production. With so many experienced “hands,” no expert ih theatricals was needed to bring realism to the picture’s representation of theatrical life. The usual supports will also he shown. On Friday a British production, featuring Betty Balfour in “ The Sea Urchin.” Mour!fiy and Tuesday next: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”