AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERY BO DYB PICTURES. TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. A . capital double , programme will * J bet submitted to-night and Thursday. Fire lias found “voice” on the motion picture screen. In Paramount’s current all-taking product i<fn, “The Dummy,” the crackle of flames in a g ihjmriEtii'n. cabin’s open fireplace will P be heard'. ; The snapping of the fire 1 was picked up clearly by the microphones which record sound while synehr<j)iised cameras capture tlie action’vf|'hus (another .one of the sounds whibh go to make up the intimate atmosphere of life lias been brought to the screen. The star cast is headed by Ruth. Ohattertdn, John Cromwell and Fredric March'. The second star is “Peacock Alley.’’? The story -is a crackorjack—dramatic, romantic, dynamic!. A. dancer goiiiig about her own affairs of / the Keairt, is mistaken for a loose woman by a detective on watch m Peacock Alley.. On the day of, her marriage to the man of- her secon dhßiiie she is accused by the detective that-is where the dramatic fire- / works start k/ Garey Wilson wrote the 7 story and if of the smartest. George Burraud heads the cast, which is all iriasculino with the exception of the star, , He plays tlie romantic lead arid Jason Robards is sdcbhd load. Billy Bevan plays a jeomedy Jbeil hop, W, L. Thorne gives famous detective- impersonations,' Richard Tiickbr is the smart New- Yorker, and, FJ. .H. Oalve , Phillips Smalley and Arthur Hoyt play small but: important roles. Marcel D Sano’e direction is superb.