AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “THE OTHER, TO-MORROW” REVEALS LOVELY BILLIE DOVE AS POWERFUL DRAMATIC AND EMOTIONAL ACTRESS. Billie Dove m Southern style. That is how the delectable screen star.* is served up to audiences at the Princess Theatre where “The Other To-mor-row,” her latest First National talking drama concludes to-night (Tuesday. ’ The story, by Octavus Roy Cohen, offers the star in one of, ..her very finest.'roles, the plot being laid in a small community in Georgia. There is a now Billie Rove in “The Other To-morrow.” She has successfully mastered the art of dialogue portrayal, and it may be said that she has crossed the gull between silent and talking pictures more sensationally than any of the former sileift;l«v--orites. Billie is as wonderfully beautiful as ever, but now she proves that she is a splendid emotional actress as well as the screen’s loveliest star. Billie is shown as a bride returning to her village home with a man she married in haste after quarrelling with, her former sweetheart, the man she really loves. Her husband is insanely jealous, and at every bit of gossip about his wife, and the other flies into a ragfr. -The,wife leayes bim, but is caught in a storm and spends the .night at the cabin of Grant Withers, who plays..the lover. Grant Withers, .the new talkie “find,” does excellent work as the lover. He is a new type on the screen, and lias a gpoißyqipe,. Kenneth Thomson gives a'suave, polished performance as the husband. . Frand Sheridan and Otto Hoffman contribute masterly characterizations, and William Grainger given a mirthful comedy bit as Drum Edge -the country clerk. Scott Seaton is also present with good effect. “The Other To-morrow” gives a vivid impression of' a Southern community of to-day. The rural background is a novel one for Miss Dove, who is usually seen amid the lights and grandeur .of ; a metropolitan centre. Lloyd Bacon director the picture, which was' adapted. by Fred Mytbn and James A.. Starr from the original story. Also five shorts. Prices: 2s and i'k fid plus’ thx. v ... j