AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBCDYC PIGTURES.

“MADONNA GE AVENUE A,” TALKIE—TO-NIGHT.

In ./‘Madonna of Avenue. A” Miss Costello’.s-latest Vitaphone talking pic- . ture for;/Warner Bros., which comes to the Princess Theatre to-night, Miss L . Costella playing, the part of a young at hoarding schoil, is. shown playing the organ at the class! exercises.. Quite by accident, the still photographer got a pose of her which looks very much like the pose .of Sir Joshua’s model for his. famous painting. There is also a startling resemblance in face and figure .between Miss Costello and the artist’s model, said to have beer; Elizabeth Liriley, a noted 18th. century English beauty who later married -the playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Both havd the’same large eyes, blonde hair, slender/figure, wide forehead, , and an etheyehi expression' ofj’dejighfr in thb" muisfejl^hlcfi 1 {gives) forth‘at the touch of her fingers. Michael Cortez directe£ff’/ J Madphh|E( /of Avenue A”v from the i; stWy- ‘byv’Mark Canfield 7 and seeirario: by/Ray • -Doyle.--The excellent supporting cast is headed by Grant Withers}-Louise-Dresser. Douglas Gefrard, Otto J Hoffman,( Lee Moran 'and others.' Miss ' Costello’s role is rthat/ of a girfj who" does not know 1 her mother, hut is kept by her at ,#ihoardin,g-school.’ -Expelled from school the- girl goes to New York and finds'-her mother; ’who, had run away with* to lever,"•"a hostess in a notorious night club on the lower : East Side. Be--1 i eviftg : ;r she : h as inherited bad blood from ; her : mother, the girl endeavours to embrace' a fast life. Instead, she reforms—and marries—the young bootlegger! who was the cause of her being expelled"from school. . * j^ThU'following,short talkieSfwill also he showh to-night; “Albert] Spalding 7 .Violinist),”)'. “Isa -Kramer,“Jubilee Singers// -ir-Edre’ Conrad/Ijt; Prices to--night, Circle' 2s, Stalls Is' 6cl; children : under/f2; ,6d. \ .... /!'■ ’( / nex-rirrtvMadirineKX;’’