AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY

“THE SKIN GAME.”

Tlio work of England’s most eminent and famous dramatist lias, with the growth of the motion picture industry, been claimed more and more often' for the screen. Frederick L<msdalp, George Bernard Shaw. Noel Coward, and Sir James Barrie are some of our greatest playwrights who have translated their masterpieces lor the films, and Hollywood itself . has even made a celluloid record of the work of tlis country’s greatest genius —Shakespeare-—in Douglas Fairbanks production of “The Taming of the Shrew.”

One of the latest and most important of dramatic converts is John GaJsj worthy, who was pressed into • the. services of the studio bv British International Pictures. His most famous play, which deals with the age-old conflict between feudalism! and modern progress, “The Skin Game.” has been converted into a talkie screen drama which will thrill and move audiences wherever it- is shown. The author himself has been content to leave the direction in the hands of Elstree’s outstanding director. Alfred Hitchcock, and the interpretation of his finely-drawn characters to an outstanding cast headed by Edmund Gwenu in his original stage role of Hornblower.