AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

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LEW CODY AND AIBEEN PRINGLE ■is El ABOftATE COMEDY TO-NIGHT.

December and May romance do not altayS 'endure. “A., Single Man,” npw playing at the Princess Theatre ‘ as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature,

brings to' the screen a very hew idea iiji the mating call of youth to middle a£e. In this , co-starring vehicle for ' sJjbw Cfrdy aiid Aileen Pringle, an adj&jition Tpf the famous stage play, the / futility of pursuing fleeting youth is shown amid a hilarious setting of college parties, cocktail dances and moonlight, swims. As a batclielor novelist who rnsikes a belated quest for romance, Cody scores in a new characterisation, a'jstriking departure from his usual roles : of sophistication. Miss Pringle, tp.o,\fins new screen triumph as the efficieht secretary whose attractiveness does hot manifest itself until her .employer wearies of his wild rfln’ with flainjng youth. Harry Beauihonth, directed the feature and has given some exceptionally deft touches to tiie production; He sacrificed none of the charm of the whimisical love story to the comedy situations which abound ip the social whirl of girls and boys on - pleasure bent. Marceline Day and Eddie Nrtgeht 'hepd the stellar fcuportipg cast. wHfch: includes Kathleen Williams, Eileen Manning and others. The psual supports .and Mr,J\ tieaux :at the. piano,. . 7.. J ' ‘ VI: ' 7