AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

k EVERYBODYC PICTURES.

ALL TALKING PROGRAMME

TO-NIGHT. Billie Dove, beautiful First Nastar, again talks in “Her 'Private Life,” the dramatic story of -London life which comes .to, the Princess Theatre .tq-riight and Saturday., This is the third all-dia-logue motion picture that Miss Dove l has made, the first being “Careers,” whicli made such'a decided hit in this' town some time ago, and the second, “The Man and the Momerit.” “Her Private Life” is the story of a titled English noblewoman who is 1 unhappily married, and finally divorced' through the blackmailing sister of a n\an she loves. But in : the end she attains happiness. Jt provides Miss Dove with a role of great dramatic strength, and gives her an -opportunity to prove again that* she isan actress of high ability, as well as /being the screen’s most ■ beautiful star;' - Walter Pidgeon is east opposite Miss Dove, and a did supporting cast ,is provided, in*, eluding Helmed Herbert, Montagu (Love, Thelma Todd, Zasu Pitts, Mary Forties/ Brandon Hurst and Roland“Her Privhle.. Life” was di- > recite'd' by Alexander' Korda, the distinguished Hungarian maestro. The Hngiisii - soenjes are particularly effective, and orid feature of the pic-', turo iKari elaborate fox hunt, which is staged for the first time on the screen with sound effects; Tlie" following short. Talkies will also 1 be shown:—“Ed Lawry,” “Sunny California,” “Cruze i Bros.,’’ “Adel© Ix? .]Vj[ar,” “Ajina Case.” .Piices: Circle, 2s; Stalls, Is 6d; ciiildrfen (under -12) downstairs, 6d. Monday and Tuesday next, “MADAME X.”

“MADAME X” TELLS GRAPHIC STGRY' IN STIRRING ALL-TALK-inGfiLm.

V ‘‘Madame X,” famous stage play, vehicle for./ Sarah ’ Bernhardt, for Paptine Frederick, for Dorothy Donnelly and many other famous actresses, conies to .the Princess Theatre in its ultra modem form, as Metro-Goldwyn-;: Mjvyer’s. latest, all-talking drama of ' thg "sdfedp.With Ruth Chatterton, celebfhlecL-stage star, in the title role, anjd'directed by Lionel Barrymore, erstlVlijle, stage,idol, and'lately'turned film difectof/r the play, while it tells the Y fiaipe .graphic story as the older stage vdpion, is produced on ultra modern lines, with rapid fire action and diaV l *' logue worked out for the screen by Willard Mack..., The new picture is . gorgeously staged, locales all over the -iforld being shown in its swift action,': and- one los the 1 most notable casts of former ; stage celebrities,,ever assemb’ed for a screen drama, appears. Lewis Stone .plays the husband, and Raymond Hackett, of “The Trial of Mary Dugan” fame, the son and attorney x for the defence. Richard Carle, oldtime Broadway star and now a screen playeT, Mitcijell 1 ,, Lewis, ■'Eugene Bes--serer, Holmes Herbert, Ullric Haupt, Sydney' Toler, and many others are in’tlie cast! The play opens in Paris, J and Then ..follows the tragic-“ Madame Jlu, X” in' lier dramatic wanderings to China,' the islands, South America and other'coioiful locales, showing in vivid and' terrible fashion her slow degredatin, until slie reaches the depth pf despair where she commits murder. It is Barrymore’s "first directorial effort with a feature length drama, and follows his recent sensational, success L “Confession.” Carroll Nye who played in - tlie former picture, incidentally, pla’ ; s jn “Madhm'e ,X.;” an'd Hackett, whofpiays tlie'youthful attorney, once snnnorted Bnn’vmore on the stage" in “The . Cpnperhead.” . The construction of fSe modernized version is a clever mingling of screen and stage tech.nL que:' The dialogue is handled much, af+or tlie stage fashion, but the plot' anil movement is based entirely on the swift action of the silent picture. For the .'first- tune “clqseUps” arid other de.-. y vices, of the silent . screen have been ■ successfxillv used in. the talking drama,, urydue'effects thus being worked out.' ' Tlie nr ices for this big attraction {#&: Circle's 3s 3d, stalls 2s, children Is;; tleserve at Mclntosh’s shop’.