AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

'.'V -uU % - 1 -*•*• f k EVERY BOD VS PICTURES.u ■■■: Y —- | TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHTI J .... ■: '{m . ■ 1 ;:v / “In. the Headlines,”'•; Warner Bros.: riew production which comes to the Princess Theatre Hokitika* this (T-hurs-;Jk day) evning is an authentic picturisaT tion of newspaper life. James Atherton -Starr, one of ‘‘the best known newspapermen in Hollywood wrote’ the original story, and Joseph Jackson, ; another newspaperman, prepared‘the screen adaptation. Starr at present ia a dialogue and title writer under contract to Warner Bros, and isrralso editor of “Cinematters,” the widely* read filtn Section of one of the Dos Aingeles dallies. Jackson, is also' under a contract to Warner Bros, as a writer. One of the many ways in-which newspapers solve baffling - murder mysteries single-handed i£> graphically revealed in “In the record in which reporters’ on large city daily paper's have brought des-' perate criminals to bay and * the Veil of mystery that has surround- ‘ e<U the crime. This is by no means confined to city : ’'newspapermen! Siriall totvn editors and 'reporters have frequently operated alone or in conjunction with tiie local police. Despite “detective sense,” the solving of such mysteries by reporters in the great majority of cases has been merely--tftqirdetermination to get the news^ ; to: rival papi' • eps, they have turned detective on vtfeeir bwri. Grant Withers plays siipeiiblly the part of Nosey Norton, star reporter, in “lln tlie Headlines’V? 4-the man who brings about the solution of a double, murder which hat,. Raffled the entire police force* - Young; 4 •Mothers displays, „a ;fin© flair for comledy and Joye-making . inho the bargain. . 'Exquisite; Marian Nixon has ItJic lefwlmg '(feminine:■'role ’.opposite , - WithVrsj -'. while- ;ihe/xißl--?tar * cast i-iR ’Jhitlei' 'Frank; Campeari, Vivian ifTdniip. Edmund .. ipfee.se,- Robert; • ObeV. ’ 1 Paulipfe"rdn^f *;0ooley, Ben Wise ,and ' many \ otlies. if/Hn tife>R[ea'dlines” was- directed bv r John ' : ‘ / The" fpliciWing;,,, four short Talkies Swill alpo be screened: —Grace Johnijtftbn, beautiful radio star and Bruns®’ick solo artist; '.Bairtram\and Sax-;-ton,..the two Kentucky boys of jazz, Ringing “Side 'by Side,” “Mammy,” -.j-jjtnd’ “Thirty-first Street >*. Blues ;V i Tate in . “Selling a Car,” rated fyivitli the best in talking comedies; AGiccolini and Zaido, talented Opera-; arid' concert stare. • -Popular prices: (Circles 2s; Stalls;r ;i's 6d, plus tax.