AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT i TO-NIGHT 1 “THE SKIN GAME.”

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

jOne of the latest and most impnctai|t of dramatic converts is John Galsworthy, who was pressed into the services of the studio by British International Pictures. His most famous play, which deals with the age-old conflict between feudalifeml 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 Gwenn in his original stage 'role of Hornblower.