AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

(SVERYBDDYB PICTURES. TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. NORMA SHEARER DAZZLING IN “LET US BE GAY.” Moral: Don’t pass by a caterpillar some day it will be a 'beautiful butterfly! This may: be drawn from “Let Us Be Gay,”-isorma Shearer’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle which opens to-night at the Princess Theatre, ltod La Rocque is clashing as the lms-band-liothario in the Picturisation ol the Marie Dressier—grand old buifoonif-is simply splendid as the eccentric dowager who keeps tilings * moving in and out of the picture, this is another of Marie’s triumphs in a semi-straight characterisation and she lets no opportunities slip by. Hedda , Hopper Hackett and Sally Eilerfe are the young love birds who find eveijthing all right when it’s all over, but pretty hectic while Norma is out vamping the other ladies at a very warm week-end party. Gilbert Emery is a capable Townley and Tyrrell Davis is a blithering poet quite effectively. The exquisite star walks right out in front of the camera—and the whole, wide world—apparently without a speck of makeup,; Iter hair in kid curlers, pineh r nose spectacles on her lovely nose and ahlliwdy wrapper to complete this domestic “ensemble. Ah , to he sure she makes up for it when she emerges frqm a, divorce as a butterfly lrom a cocoon, more beautifully gowned and toileted than ever before; a more glaX morons Norma than we have ever yh- known. And daring too is the theme ff upon which this picture, is motivated, ••'V not so naughty, perhaps, as her last picture,; ‘ but inclined ever so spicily to intrigue, .'smart sophistication so reminiscent of‘things gayIv. Continental. Happily, this is one of Miss Shearer’s finest ■ performances, certainly, one o. her smoothest and most adept characterisations. Again Robert Z. Leonard is credited with direction, Leonard, we are reminded, also screened “The Divorcee.” with which this new picture has something J in common —marital wreckage based upon infidelity.