AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVFRYBCDYS PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. “CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.” “Captain of The Guard.’’ llie 1»i<xge.st all-sonntl production attempted in the motion picture* industry to ho screened 10-niglit and Thursday, is a dramatic musical spectacle of the French Revolution, co-sFtirriug John Roles, singing star of “The Desert Song”, “Rio Rita” and others, and Laura La Plante. It brings Charles Wakefield ('adman America’s foremost composer, to the singing screen for the first time and

the Marseillaise' itself, the dramatic national hymn of the French nation, is dramatized both in pictures and music to a height of intensity that sweeps every emotion before it. This song js the theme behind the picture and beautiful love story between Roles and Ron. get De Lisue and Miss La Plante as Marie Marmiy, who becomes loader of the early revolutionists, known to the whole of France as “The Torch.” Tt is La Marseillaise which carries .forward the tremendous drama of the revolution, pictured in the film by huge battle scenes between the revolutionary mobs and the King’s trained guards, in which 7,000 players, all in peasant costumes or brilliant picturesque uniforms, were used at one time, John S. Robertson, famous motion picture director, has succeeded in pietnrisimr not only the immortal march of the Marseilles men and the terrific battles, but the- spirit-bo-hind them.

M any huge sets were used in making the picture, an entire French village, the enormous banquet ball where Rouget joins his regiment, magnificent settings in the King’s palace, the garrison and the dungeons b'dow. Kvery costume, uniform ami prop are exact reproductions, and there are

thousands of them. Resides Rolen, and Miss La Plante, Lionel Relmorc, Stuart Holmes, Evelyn Hall. Murdock McQuarrie, Claude Fleming, George Hackathorne, Rich rare! Cramer. Harrv Rurkhnrdt, De-AVitt. Jennings, and many others appear in important roles. “Captain of The Guard” is an original screen, story by Houston Rraneh, a noted playwright. Also Paramount Sound News and Universal Movietone News. Prices 3/-, 2/- plus tax.