AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“NOAH’S ARK’’ MIGHTIEST OF ALL MOTION PICTURES.

.Apkj’’ tli e picture which. W.apier Bros, heralded as “made to top,.any picture ever made,” has its. premiere gt- the . Princess Theatre t.onight. Stupendous in conception, the production was more than three years in,, the making, and includes, in , the cast, over ten' thousand extra characters. The. story, which was written by Darryl Francis Zanuck, touches those moments of cataclysmic power between which lie fifty centuries. The characters play their parts in the soultrying moments at the beginning of the twentieth century, and, are wafted back to the days of Noah—to vast scenes of heathen, debauchery—to the building of the Ark —the dark terror of rising waters—which destroyed all but the family,.qf the patriarch. Sets covering more than a square mile were necessary to the production which was directed...l)v .Michael Ourtiz, internationally famed as..the director of great spectacles. The cast includes Dolores Costello, who is starred with George O’Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Guinn Williams, Paul McAllister, Nigel de ; Brpher, Ander Randolf, Armaml alifl, Myrna Loy, William V. Along, Malcolm Waite, Noble Johnson, Otto Huffman, and Joe Bonomo. “Noah’s Ark” js a magnificent spectacle altogether, enthralling in’its.'Scenes of flood, and turmoil, and in’ its lighter moo-ds of music. and . merriment.

Two, shorts complete, a very attractive programme to please any audience. Usual prices 2s and Is 6d plus tax.