AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. "HE KNEW WOMEN." FILM VERSION OF SUCCESSFUL PLAY. The man who wrote the play, from which ‘‘He Knew Women”, now at the’ Princess Thehtre, was take-n is S': 'N. Belirmanj considered by the foremost critics as one of America’s firs I playwrights. ‘‘He knew Women , was taken from Bohrmnn’s success o> last season, "Tlie Second Mini" a dramatic sensation which Broadway acclaimed -one of the most significant and notable plays by a modern writer. , Belirman graduated from Harvard University in 1916, and.although his bent was toward writing, lie did none of 'this at college. ; Now, at the age if 35 Avars; 1 hg -«s 'Recognised as one of this c'otrntryks. leading dramatists. Among.’tlie dramatic stage successes . Behnnan has written, are such not- j .able affairs 'of the-theatre as .‘‘Serene | Blandish,”, which Je'd Harris produced J in r New' York. Another great play for ! which' Behr’irVair. rcceivc-d the unstinted* praise of the critical commenta- ; tors' is’" ‘‘jVleteor,” which had a long . Broadway run. He 'also wrote ‘‘Love iff Like That”; and "The Man Who ' i Forgot.'”' K'dßehrman was horn in Wor- '> cester, Mass., butyls- now resident in HolljVood: Ayhefe he . has made his liomcj:.. '. "He : Knew Women" which has pro.Veff ; popular, with local audieni cesY* feotyiVes .-TyOwell Sherman and . Alice Joyce, with a distinguished sup--1 porting east.' Cbhihijgi-Monday and Tuesday- •' ‘‘Surihy-si de ~,.Up. ”