AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

€VFRYBDDYS PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY

V EVELYN BRENT

. Always identified with dramatic, serious roles, Evelyn Brent lias readied ,11 high .point in her brilliant career in .her latest co-starring Paramount • all-talking vehicle ‘.(Slightly Scarlet’’, the current feature at the Princess Theatre. In “Slightly Scarlet,” as in the smashing success, “Interference”, Miss Brent plays opposite Clive Brook.

Miss.-. Brent has been called the “queen of melodramas”, and “Slightly Scarlet”>iis a' tense, dramatic, highly adventurous, romantic melodrama. The story.: unfolds in, handsome surroundings with one umisual twist after another. Miss' Brent, famous on the screen for the beauty of her clothes, in .“Slightly Scarlet.” wears many new creations which 'admirably set off her gorgeous, dark beauty. Born in Tampa, Florida, Miss Bj’onfc lived "in'Syracuse and Brooklyn, N.Y., and worked as extra at the World film studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Then she went to England, and was taken back to the United States to play in moving pictures. “Darkened Rooms”, ■recently released, was her first starring picture. She was . seen in “Fast Company”, “Why Bring That Up?”, “Woman ,Trap” and “‘The Last Command.’) Also'"YMickyjifort.se Cartoon. Prices 2/10, t/(§dd)il(lisb, 6d downstairs. •?