AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. *> .i* V.fi fpn f .•. * i *•'' '** •: - GREAT STABS OF GREAT SCREEN REVIVAL. - -'* * ■ “THE HOME TOWNERS.” “The ' Home Towners,’,’ a . great screen revival of, Georget:M. Cbhan’s great, stage, success .is coming, to -the Princess Theatre to-night. . The cast has many famous recruits ~ .from the including Richard Bennett, Boris 'Vive nyon,, Robert ,McWade,, Robert EdeI son, Gladys Brockwell, Jolin Miljan, Vera Lewis,. Stanley Taylor, James T. Mack and; Patricia Caron. And what is egally. important, there.'is something. to say. No playwright of :.our day is more deft in comedyrthan Geo/ M. Cohan, and Warner Bros’ adapters,, Addison* Burkhart and,. Murray Roth, have.:’kept ball the of the ori-. ginal. Bryan Foy, who. is. one, of the really great directors of the: day, is responsible for Warner Bros.’ latest triumph: “The Home Towners” is a genial heart-warming, "chuckling play

—-recounting the adventures of two middle-aged/ chums, tlie young Judy, to / whom one is engaged, and her family <. / v \Jiobert .Me Wade plays.P.’ H. Bancroft, the small-town pal who hears; that,his. millionaire crony, is engaged-to in aiTy a Big Town ( young Bancroft/ at once assumes that she gnd-her family are hoodwinking- •^rrs“. s '#iend-,~ i ;and:' comes. post haste to Manhattan to set things,, right, Instead, he sets things decidedly wrong, and it is.only after much, .uproarious manoeuvring that he straightens out the, mix-up he himself has McWade marvel- - part - he ,; played in Vine original stage production... Don’t fail to see “Tlie Home Teeners.” The four short talkies sifppdfting ' this programme are- as fol]ows: , f 'R:cd; Spikes and his Orchestra,” S' jngfpur popular -jazz numbers; a jdy . sketch! ; entitled.. ‘(When .the,; ?’s .'. Away,” three sjMg?; * / . Riogjug '■ their \(ri\tgual Prices: ; i&g^tfti|^id! < tax'. ; - m ■* • *