AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES “NAUGHTY BABY” I, TO-NIGHT -A" regular'; cocktail of laughter is '‘Nuughffcy Baby,” which, opens tonight at- the. Princess .Theatre. With Alice White as .the principal ingredient. in the cocktail,, this lively story moves along with a. laugh a- minute, due to.,the , able. direction of Mervyn Le' Roy, ,who. was responsible for. ‘.‘Oh! Kay,” the sensational success in which; Miss Ckjlleen Moore , a’(so .appeared. Jack Mulhall .is featured with Miss White, who has the role' of a .check, girl. Tat the Rite Hotel, and , who is herself more, ritzy than the establishAlice has no idea of staying poon. long, and when Jack comes into view with the intention of gilding the Great White Way with a broad brush she 1 has a. great yearning to help him iniliis noble work. Jack plays the role of the heir to millions who is trying to spend a good part of it. in advance. Alice, is a regular four-timer, and works three of her humble neighbourhood admirers, one an Italian, the other Jewish and the third Irish, for everything she needs to catch Mulhall. The •oles.-of- these “three musketeers” are idmirably taken -by George S'fcone, Jenny Rubin and Andy Devine.y Orife vorks in a modiste shop and borrows gowns'',i rthe other in a pawnshop where le can borrow jewels, while the other, forks in a garage and can furnish, ars. Needless to say, with this lay-, mt Alice is ritzy—and how | The fcory works out is as ood entertainment as the Princess 'hfea.tr© has had •in many a moon., ‘helma, Toild, "Doris Dawson, Fred lelsey, Rosie Dioiie and others conbitute a notable cast. Toni Geraghty. rote 'the script. ■ ;A Topical ami-Comedy will also he loiyn to-night. Mr Restieaux at the piano.'