AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

8 • “'1 r EVERYBODYS PICTURES. $ “NOAH’S ARK” MIGHTIEST 0$ ALL MOTION”; PI GT UI? ES. 11 TO-NIGHT-TOINIGHT. .The much-her aided and screen, spectacle from Warner Bro|., “Noah’s- Ark,” with beriutiful Dolores Costello in the stellar role, had a, spectacular and .-imposing opening: in Hokitika last night at the Princess Theatre. It is a magnificent spectacle. It stirred the capacity audience to wild applause and cheering. has such a breath-taking film been seen. Its cumulative effect is tremendous: "Never before have such mighty spectacular effects been achieved upon the screen. The subject is the most powerful,;and: dramatic record-c ded in the Old Tesaiflent, and Warner '■ Bros, and Vitaphone have made it the most absorbing, thrilling and spectacular production ever filmed. “Noah-sT Ark” comes through the test magnificently, justifying all fthe claims that have been made,, for it "by WArneiy Bros., who have nursed if ' from its infancy to its present gigantic growth. The sequences .and atio. The- settings, ‘vast to an • ufi“ believable degree., add power and a quality of majesty to the colourful drama of sequences, . while the accompanying effects' arc treriieridous and startling. There.is a modern introduction. to thg Biblical .flood :in; which .fragments of the action of the. dffdihtfefe'd-.aii’mies of the Great War" are depicted, the flood of blood that overwhelmed modern civilisation leading the chief characters in the drama to, that .great'flood of water in Noah’s time which, according to Biblical accounts overwhelmed the world. Dolores Costello as a young German girl, Mary, dancer in a travelling show troupe,’ is ' on hoard the Paris-Constantinoplc Express, with Travis, a care-free American, and his friend Al, a Russian officer, and others, when the train runs upon a wrecked bridge, and its cars are sent tumbling down the embankment. ■•—<!&• Two shorts complete, a very attractive programme to please any audience. Dsual prices 2s arid Is-fid plus tax; •TvCorinrig Friday'and Saturday • John’ Boles, the star of “The Desert Sorijf**’’ in the “Song of the West,” arid new Serial.