AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES, j • • - ~ , . A>: 'S' “ ' . ; J BEATRICE JOY; IN “A MOST UNWORTHY LADY.” r- • FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. * ■ Leatrlfce. Joy, a favourite of motion, picture fans, comes to the Princess Theatre to-night in a Firfst National pictui-e,. ‘‘A, Most Unworthy Lady/” adaptetfeV'.'.jfrom . Townsend- Martin’s • stage play of the same. name. The story, deals with a wife,, who endeavl ours to help her A 'by trying to i nfluenCe'.othhr men. V disastrous results of this plan make a; . story that is dramatic and , tense, sustaining the interest, 0f,....the aud- , ienoe throughoyjb: and giyjng Miss Joy . and her j fellow-ar tistis ( opportunity for some really marvellous'' characterisations. As the - tiful and attrajoiiye .F.ife;’.:Miss Joy ,i©2 most happily • cast.;, She ..demonstrates,: - again that she is .one-.of the finest dramatic actresses on ‘ the”' screen today, and brings to a difficult role a y warm and jsyiftpatJ^y. J[py seems l tli|n $ ever in this picture, and certainly is - one of the ‘/best j to-day. Sidney Blaehmefy '■a-'' Broad*-’ 1 k way stage actor . ; ''6tr;great yab:ility, : tot 12 f • seen in the, role "of Humphrey Safgeant, the husband, an<jh-brings} to the t part an artistry that/ is/ prijoticjilly > flawless. Walter Pidgeon' is" cast as < the- ‘‘other m£n/: ? and 'dbesi; the role i very welt, 4 iigdeedt Montagu Love 1 gives hrr^ l; usUal /smooth performance' i as. the “heavy,” and Josephine Duhif also is outstanding. Donald Reed, ] ißoibei't-' Edeson, Florence Oakley and' i Wilson ■•BS'pgft make up.a , *< andi'f wefr-Wahced cast: ’ “A Mosf 1 1 Unworthy Lady” is splendid enter- 1 taioment, and will serve to increase 1 the/popularity of Mijss Joy wherever \ it, jhay be shown. The photography is especially beautiful, .and the scenes % in |he 7gay Palm Beach resort ens||«a>nd in the Russian e outjpictorially. ( .This; i&f -(F 01^1 t while, screen,<|fathai- pi^' if-'- At|i>ig supporting series'udll/al^o' be \ shovfh ippjuding further .vijhapter^ ' Semi.. U:..i .j. £ .Places (Dirole; 2s.fiiS&fUs/... -Is-j 1 (id; | ChijprenLj(.under 12)/'idb'vypStairsj sd. I