AMUSEMENTS.
<VKRYBODYB PICTURES. ‘•THE MAN IN POSSESSION.’" Robert Montgomery began his famous role in “The Big House” by going into prison. He reverses the order in. his new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “The Man in Possession,” now at the Pri'hcess Theatre for two nights. For in this picture Montgomery emerges from gaol in the opening scene. It' is his shocked family’s attempts to get him out of the country that starts the complications of the plot, which-finally end in a number of hilarious situations, when Montgomery poses as a butler in the hom e of the attractive but penniless widow who is trying to marry his brother for money. Sam Wood directed the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer production, which was adapted from the Broadway stage success of H. M. Harwood. Charlotte Greenwood has a featured supporting role as a Cockney maid who gets into all sorts of difficulties with the fresh butler..
Irene Purcell, who scores opposite William Haines in “Just a Gigolo,” is Montgomery’s leading woman, and the cast also includes C. Aubrey Smith, Beryl Mercer, Reginald Owen and Alan Mowbray. Also News, Comedy and Micky Mouse Cartoon. Prices 2/6, 1/6, children 6d downstairs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 3
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190AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 3
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