AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

everybodys pictures.

* TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY

STAGE COMEDY “KEMPY” NOW “WISE GIRLS” ON SCREEN.

One of the greatest stage successes has ever Known “Kempy,” by J. C. and Elliott Nugent, comes as a talking picture to the Princess Theatre, to-night under the screen title of “Wise Girls.” It is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, dn-ected by E. Mason Hopper. Picture audiences at the , Princes Theatre will get a “strictly stage cast” in this famous domestic comedy for the four principal roles are taken by the same artists who, played them for two years in London and New York. J. C. Nugent plays his old role, that of th,e amusing ‘‘Pa Bence,” while Elliott Nugent is “Kempy,” a stuttering young plumber-architect, who suddenly becomes master of the “Bence” household. Norma Lee has her original part as “Rate Bence,”

J while Clara Blandick is .perfectly at home in her old role of “Ma Bence.” : The whimsical part of the “Duke Merrill” is- taken by no less a personality than Roland Young. , This is the second talkie, to be made by this British favourite, his first being “'J he •Unholy Night.” First of the now popular domestic comedies, • “Wise Girls” is' still the leader in this field of drama. The plot centres around “Pa Bence” unci', bis three daughters, two of whom he has to provide husbands for. A sudden revolt of “Kate” one of the daughters, and her tumultuous marriage to “Kempy James,” arch-itect-plumber, complicated by the love of the rich “Duke Merrill,” provides fast motivation for a well-planned comedy of very human characterisations. “Our Gang,” a talking comedy will alpo be shown.