AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

jEVERYBODYS picture* ALL TALKING PROGRAMME. “KID GLOVES-,” TO-NIGHT. ‘‘Kid Gloves,” the ,talkie picture 'for presentation at Princess Theatre to-night, is Warner Bros, latest picture to feature that sterling actor, Conrad Nagel, who plays opposite Lois Wilson. Others .in the excellent oast are Edward Earle, Edna Murphy, Maude Turner Gordon, Richard Cramer, Tommy Dugan, and John Davidson. The, story is from the fertile pen of Fred My ton. Robert Lord did the scenario, and the megaphone was ffpodled by the veteran‘Ray Enright. >l %id Gloves” is a rattling underworld rdclodrania, showing Nagel as “Kid Gloves” Smith, hijacker. He is in thehottest of a gun battle with members of a rival gang,, when a taxi stops in the midst of the fracas,- one man escapes, but the other passenger, a pretty girl, lies frucoiiscious on the floor of the car. .What Jiappens, aftpr Kid Gloves has restored her, been forced to marry her, tried' to free her, failed, been framed as a nuirderei, and a number of 'eqhalbv disxptiettiig : things—makes the story one of the most vivid and editing of The direction is |^tiiniely-' -good;;'and the photography is- a'credit tb the veteran Reynolds.' A show, that pin kj&p you on tip-roe, mptaplipijcally at least. : The supports are two'" ML ' talkie' short comedies. „.... P/Tices: —2s and Is 6d,; ..children, downstairs, 6d.