AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYB3DYS PICTURES.

RUTH CHATTERTOX REVEALS WONDERS OF MAKE-UP IN “Madame x”

TO-NIGHT.

Sound pictures may revive what has

come to be, on the screen, the “lost

’< art” of stage make-up. Lionel Barry- '- jf'. more when he directed “Madame X,” ' ''Metro-Gol’idwyn-Mayer’s all talking filmization of the noted stage play, now .playing at the Princess Theatre, assembled a cast of actors who, practically without exception, all were makeup disguises, such as are used on the stage, in their roles. In past years this has not been done on the screen, a.saqtorshave been chosen by types,” so that their natural appearances would fit the parts. Ruth Chatterton, who plays the heroine, starts ns a young tvdmah - and,' by means of make-up, portrays five different stages of advancing agd in the new picture.

Lewis Stone, who plays the husband, also 1 by means’.of make-up . throughout- the Action of the play, which cdters a period of some twenty years. ''‘‘On the stage,”. says Barrymore, ‘‘We never employed actors be; cause they were this oV that type, but assumed that if they were actors they could biake-up to look any part they could act. This is the principle we revived in the new picture,; and as a result, perhaps, were able to get much hotter players than if we had been limited to types for each role.’” The cast is one Of the most notable ever assembled for a recent picture, Raymond Hackett plays the son and attorney for the defence, and Holmes Herbert, Eugenie Besserer, Mitchell Lewis, Ullric Haupt,- Sydney Toler, • Richard Carle, Carrol Nye, Claud King ) Chappell Dossett and others of note are among the principal players. The ac-

tion of the drama' fakes' the heroine

all over the world, and into many % piHurvfsque. locales, in' the course of its rapid movement. In the .opening’ is a 'lady -in'Paris. - The If)-'file shifts, to China,'Honolulu; South America, and ends back in Paris, .in a courtroom scene, where she goes on trial; for her life. The. prices‘for this big attraction are -‘ Circles 3s 3d, 'stalls 2s. children Is. Reserve at Mclntosh’s, shop.