AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

.ALL TALKING TO-NIGHT. Writing for the talkies is a new art according to, Norman Houston, well known New York .-.playwright and stage director, who wrote the dia“The College Coquette,” the all-talking picture, coming to, the Princes Theatre to-night. He claims, that many pictorial effects are lost if the concentrated: for™ used in stage plays ,is , resorted to. Equally out °f place is the scenario form of the old type silent picture. One must achieve,... a form between the two for the talkies, combining dialogue with pictorial , in such ~a; way that the illusiona is complete, and satisfying. Norman Houston has: .been associated with manysuccesses. In addition : to ,;f. ‘doctoring” up,, plays for" Sami Harris and .AT Woods, he wrote the originals of numerous ,Bjjbadway. Houston - is alsq responsible for the dialogue of “The Broadway Melody,” one of 2 year., For “The College 1 CbqUetto” he had to supply'-dialogue.-with, much; wit and humour "to fit the wise-crack- . ing personalities of a. co-educational institution. Ruth * Taylor, .-William Collier, Jr., Jobyfia" Ralston ' and Jqhn Holland; portray they leading roles in, the, film about campus life. George ;i ’A.’rcliainbaud directed. -A big supporting series- will also be shon including short. Talkies! The first episode of the; new serial, “Wie s ...Diamond Master,” starring I oulse Lorraine aqjd- .Hayden Stev- 1 enscfn will be shown. Prices: Circle, 2s; Stalls, Is 6il; Children, (under 12), downstairs, 6d. iff}