AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

IVKRYBQDYS PICTURES. “DON’T BET ON WOMEN.” “Women is man’s greatest enigma and if anyone doubts the wisdom of this time worn adage a visit to the' Princess Theatre, where the lox Movietone comedy, “Don’t Bet on Women,” is now playing, will, .quickly, set his mind at ease and afford him an hour of laughs at the exepnse of the male sex.

■ Here is a subtle and sophisticated comedy of love on a yacht and in a drawing room, with Edmund Lowe, the screen’s great heartbreaker, in the leading role. Co-featured with him is the delightful stag-, Jeanette MacDonald who was last seen here in “Oh, For A Man.” The cast includes such masters of oomedy as Roland Young and J. M. Kerrigan, as well as Una Merkel, who again lives, up to her re;.putation as the funniest flapper on the silversheet.

- The story concerns a man-about-town, who, when lie remarks that all women are bad, is inveigled into a wager witfr his attorney that he can’t

&iss. the first woman who crosses his

path. Great is the embarrassment a. Yeoman turns'out to be the ~f, attorney’s wife. When they discover iv.v- that the wife knows of their bet they - are on the verge of calling it off, but

H ;S he insists that the bet is on. She .’’dOreyels in.the opportunity to study love '*■■■= making from A master, but instead of ?. learning anything she teaches them both the danger of betting on women.’ . '/AWilliam E. Hoiriird directed the picture from an original by. William Anthony McGuire. Good support. Prices 2/6)11/6, children 6d downstairs.