AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“SHOW OF SHOWS.”

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“Show of Shows,” the Warner Bros, and Vitaphone supfir-revue in tec 1 micolour, showing at the Princess Theatre to-night, lives tip to the extravagant claims made for it by the producers. It is not only in the stagger-

ing number of stars of stage and screen in the cast; nor in the half a ,■ thousand Supporting people, nor in the magnificent settings, the melodies, the dances, the witty dialogue, tin colours of life in which it is filmed;

it is the combination of all thehe elements which makes a sort of “Field of the Cloth of Gold” an intricate and yet restful and invigorating design like that of an Oriental nig. or a Gobelin tapestry. Every sort of stage and screen entertainment has its high moment in this melodious panorama/ John Barrymore gives the touch of the tragic, in his splendidly delivered soliloquy of the Duke o! Gloucester—later King Richard Ilf from King Henry VI. He is suipporteo by Mr Ratcliffe and Mr Bushell nrid thirty others. France is represented by two of her most captivating personalities Irene >Bordoni w itli ten pianists and ten ladies; dressed a la Bordoni —sings songs in her charmingly broken English—and Carpenter, Patsy- Ruth Miller, Alice White and ft hundred or so athletic beauties go through some amazing callisthenics all in the shadow of the famous Eiffel Tdwer. The Adagio Dangers fire thrilling in their graceful acrobatic feats and negro hallelujah singers, one hundred and fifty of them, add to the'glories of the scintillating “Lady Luck’> grand finale in which 1 the principals are the resplendent Betty Compson and . Alexander Gray, with several ‘hundred white folks, adept at singing and dancing. Ted Lewis is higMiattedly evident with his peppy .mzaboys. Beatrice Lillie, of thd London music halls and London high society, docs pome of her inimitable clowning. There is a “Bicycle Built for Two” number, with many young stars and starmes. A pirate number wfth the most bump■fjious of the heavies in swashbuckling 'gear. And there are gorgeous songs Only the eyes and ears can catch the splendour of this kaleidoscope of ah the entertainment world which is the “Show of Shows.” It is indeed “The advent of a new event in pictures." Further chapters of the Serial wih also be shown. Prices: 3s and 2s, .plus tax, children 6d.

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