AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

“In the- Headlines;” Warner; Bros.'

new production which conies;/to the Princess Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday is an authentic ■ picturisation of newspaper life. James Atherton Starr, one of the best known ~ /newspapermen in Hollywood wrote W he” original story, and Joseph Jackson;'! another newspaperman, prepared tlie• screen adaptation.. Starr at present is a dialogue and title writer under contract to Warner' Bros, and is also editor of “Cinematters,” the widely read film-section of one of the L’os Angeles daffies. Jackson, is also under a contract ■ to Warner Br<*. as a writer. One of. the many ways ‘.in which newspapers solve baffling'; murder mysteries single-handed if graphically reveailed in- r“ln . the Headlines M Innumerable cases are on .record in which reporters on large city, daily papers have brought des- 1 operate criminals to bay and lifted veil of mystery that has surrounded the crime. This is by no meana. confined to city newspapermen y, Small town editors anti reporters have, frequently operated alone or in conjunction' with the local police. Despite; tWjfj;; ‘.a]ipare : uncanny ■ display of ‘‘detective sense, ’ ’ • the Bolvins- of•"suph y mysteries by reporters in the great majority of eases has been merely thejr determination to get the news.

In order to, “scoop” their rival papeqs,' they have turned detective on their own. Grant. Withers plays

supe’tii^y Ti the 'part of' Nosey Norton,-s star reporter, in “In the Headlines ’ —the ; man who brings about the solu-

tion at a, double murder , which has 1 entire police force. Young; WitiieH displays a fine flair for comedy; |§td' into the •bargain. :.V. Exquisite Marian NixonKhas. the; Raiding' femiiprie role opposite Withers, while' the; Tail-start jcast 1 < in-.-Gampeau, \QViAnQakPauline Garenj-• Hallam i Cooley, Ben Had;paclq' Wise . and; many othos. ‘ ‘ln tke Headlines”' waijj directed by JoiiuffeV . ij'' following'' foilf ' Short; Talkies will i>| ' : pereened:—Grace 'Jqlwiston,| .l)^aiiiiful. j i i adip fstaf and Brunswick; solo artifit'ji-jdaftram and Saxton, : ttie two Kentucky.' i’boys of ja m j “Side 'by Side,” “Mammy,” - Street Blues Harm Tate in “Selling tt Car,”' rated with§he best' in^lkinjT'comedies; Cic-colihit, and Zaido, talented Opera and concert • stare.

Popular prices: Circles 2s; 'Stalls Is 6d, Aplus tax.