AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EYE R Y BOOYS PI CTURE&

♦‘LONESOME”

-TO-NIGHT

unusual romance in wTiTcli the ■vi\Pain is lonesomeness, will open here f at .the princess Theatre to-night. It is made by .Universal, a iK>,ignantly human drama, of the lives of Mary and Jim, both workers in a big city and both .living alone. Tjie story concerns a day’s history of Mary and Jim, when they ..are to tether at a crowded beach resort by a mutual _ desire for companionship. Spending, the day in pusuit of fun on the concessions, they fall in love. Then when .they are separated in «?rowd, a great tragedy conies into lives. They found and lost each other in the same day. But they end ■up in each other’s arnjs in asurprisiiSg climax. (Glen Tryon portfa-ys his ; ’first norf-comedy role as Jim .with triumphant success. Barbara Kent is said to he exceptional. The picture is heralded as a gcreen sensation. “Lonesome” was directed by Paul Fejos, Hungarian genius imported by Carl Laemmle. It i%. Ins initial studio production in the Unjtgd' States. He uses a new style of capjHra technique with' impressionistic and. colour Sequences that are clever, artistic and strikingly original. Fay Holderness, Gustave Partos and Eddie Phillips have brief parts. The story is an original by Mann Page, the adaptation and continuity being done by Edward T. Ilowe, Jr,, c ‘%cmesonie” ...was personally iLaeiipnlo Jr. ■■

Further chapters of the Great Tarzan. will also be shown, also, T’qpicM and comedy. f Orchestrar seectioifs?