AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

4VKRVBODYS PICTURES. “DANCE FOOLS DANCE.” JOAN CRAWFORD IS STAR OF EXCITING TALKIE. , “Dance Fools Dance,” which concludes to-night at Princess Theatre, is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s latest talking picture starring Joan Crawford. Tliis is the most glamorous of Miss Crawford’s, recent roles, reflecting the tragio of “Within the Law,” her last screen offering.

The story principally concerns the underworld and newspaper life. Lester Vail, a newcomer to the screen who recent! de his debut in “Beau Idear^T^-.'!iss ''Crawford’s leading man in her new picture, and the supporting cast includes such film favourites as Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Hpklen, Clark Gable,. Earl Foxe, .Purnell B. Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Marsh and Russell Hopton. Perhaps outstanding in the spectacular episodes is a nocturnal lingerie swimming party staged during a, gay yachting cruise in the opening scenes. In this, scores of dazzling damsels strip to unmentionables and dive overboard with their boy friends. Another glittering scene is the night club dance number intriguingly executed by Mb'ss Crawford, costumed in a clinging silver creation.

Thd story, despite lavish touches, is an intensely dramatic one. It is a daring theme from the society angle and a still' more daring one from the view point of exposing crime and racketeering. There is a wealth of newspaper atmosphere, realistically supplied.

Miss Crawford nlavs the nart of <i society girl, reduced to poverty, who turns to newspaper work for a livelihood. In her hunt for the gangster killers of another reporter, she discovers her own brother to have been involved in the brutal crime. The cl.imax comes when she decides to give her brother up. ,