AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYB PICTURES “DREAM OF LOVE” WAIHO GLACIER. O 1 TO-NIGHT. . "* Joan Crawford plays the roie made famous by the great Sarah Bernhardt in “Dream of Love,” which open's tonight at the Princess Theatre as a new -vietro-Goldwyn Mayer feature. The h screen presentation is an adaptation of “Adrienne Lecouvreur;” faindus French play that was used by Bernhardt as a starring vehicle for many seasons. Fl'ed Nibio, in bringing this story' to the screen, has presented many scenes of rare cinematic brillian e and the love episodes between Asther and Miss' Crawford are handled with delicate ivarmih. In the film version the setting is laid in a mythical and picturesque Balkan kingdom. It tells o L the love romance between a wandering gypsy maid and the royal heir to a. throne. They meet at a circus car r nival-, and after a night of love are parted by the inexorable law which says that a member of royalty cannot wed 'a; commoner. How the status of- each undergoes a change, how they rise to heights of dramatic passion and sacrifice makes a play of unusual power and charm. Nils Asther appears opposite Joan Onwford in the brilliant film offering, and the elaborate supporting cast includes Aileen Pringle,. Carmel Myers, Warner Oiand and many others of note.' A special added attraction in ’ tonight’s display is a very fine-sceni 1 ' Trip to Waiho Gorge and Glacier.” full particulars' of rchich appear in anotfter column of this issue. On Wednesday “The Exploits, of the Emden” and her ultimate destruction by H.M.A.S. -Sydney’, will be screened.