AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

£VERYBODYS PICTURES.

OF SHOWS.”

NATURAL OOLOUII SUPBR-RIW Uls

‘‘SRovv of Shows,” the Warner Bros, and Vitaphone super-revue in teclmieplour, showing at the Princess Theatre to-night, lives up to the extravagant claims made for it ; by the producers. it is not only in the staggering number of stars of stugp and sereep. in the cast 5 nor in the half a thousand supporting people, nor in the magnificent settings, the melodies, the dances, the witty dialogue, the colours of life in which it is filmed; it is the combination of all these 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 rug. 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 of Gloucester—later King Richard lll—from King Henry VI. He is snpport- \' eo by Mr Ratcliffe and Mr Bushell and thirty others. France is repre-sented-by two of her most- captivating personalities Irene -.Bordoni —with ten pianists and ten ladies dressed a la Bordon L—sings songs in' her charmingly;' broken English—and Georges Carpenter. Patsy Ruth Miller, Alice White and a hundred or so athletic beauties go through some amazing callisthenics all in the shadow oi thcfaruoua Eiffel Tower. The Adagio Dancers are thrilling in their gi aceful acrobatic teats and negro hallelujah singers, one hundred and fifty of them, add to the glories of the scintillating “Lady Luck ’ grand finalo in which the principals are the resplendent Betty Compson and Alexander Gray, tvith several hundred white folks, adept at singing and dancing. Ted Lewis is high-hattedly evident with his peppy jazzboys. Beatrice Lillie, of the London musichalls and London high society, does some of her inimitable clowning. There \ : is a “Bicycle Built for Two” number, } with tnany young stars and staiines. A pirfite number with the most bumptious of -the heavies in swashbuckling ' gear. And there are gorgeous songs. Only the eyes and ears can catch the splendour of this kaleidoscope of all the entertainment world which is the “Show of Shows.” It is indeed ‘ The advent of a new event in pictures." Prices: 3s and 2s, plus tax, children 6d.