AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

“UNEASY VIRTUE” AND “HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND.”

One of our distinguished actresses has by the good offices of! .British International Pictures, been claimed from the stage for picture-goecs. Fay Compton has become, since her stage debut at the age of sixteen with the famous “Follies,” the moist popular of our comedy actresses. Among her many outstanding stage successes have been a series of leading parts in Barrie plays, such as “Peter Pan,” “.Quality Street,” and “Mary Her remarkable talent for f portraying such contrasting roles as Ophelia in “Hamlet” and Hick Whittington in the recent pantomime at Manchester declare her to be the ideal talkie actress. To see her in this comedy of a wife who prefers to be thought beneath rather than above suspicion should be tile aim of , all film goers who like , to see and hear British artistry at its best. “Uneasy Virtue” will be shown at the Princess Theatre to-night.

The supporting picture to “Uneasy Virtue” is a four-reel comedy by Bernard Shaw, entitled “How He Lieu to Her Husband.” This is full of all the usual Shaw wit and surprise situations and the dialogue is most daring and clever. It concerns a middleaged husband and wife and a young poet who is passionately in love with the wife. The end is. so surprising as to take one’s breath away. The production itself was superintended by Bernard Shaw and the cast is excellent-. ' • ,_T.' '