AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

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“THE SAP” TO-NIGHT. To-night (Monday) and Tuesday. «#'- “The Sap” will : be • produced. Vitaphone''offeredno difficulties for the cast bf “Thb; Sap)” Warner Bros.’ new L comedy when it' was being filmed ahd J recorded.' Practically every member of ' the all-star cast has had much experience on the speaking .stage and the language was all plain English, dotted with" a. few small town colloquilisihsi ■ “The Sftp” is a " splendid example of how much humor and drama was missed before Vitaphorie made the players talk like'human beings as well a s look like them. Rapid-fire lines, natural, but packed with comedy m the various situations that confront the characters in the story, give ‘‘The Sap” zest'it could never have had as silent drama. ; Two young couples and a blustering banker find themselves in a peck of trouble with only the doubtful brains of the town simpleton, the luckless inventor'; between them aiid pnftrn. Then things begin to happen. Edward E'verett Horton plays the title role in “The Sap” and Alan Hale is the banker; Assisting them in a first water comedy is a remarkable cast headed by Franklyn Pangborn, Patsy Ruth Miller and Edna Murphy. The talkie is based on the play by William Grew. Archie L. Mayo ; directed. There are five short talkie