AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

“TRANS-ATLANTIC.” Anchors aweiglv! Full speed ahead! , Those who like their thrills and romance sprayed with the brine of the sea and/flavoured with the luxury of a deluxe ocean, liner are recomemnded 'r. tp the Princess Theatre where the Pox y&rama. “Trans-Atlantic,” with Ed- ** jjpniund . Lowe and Lois Moran in the T’eluding roles is now sailing its entertaining course. • From the moment u Edmund Lowe, as a suave and debonair gambler slips aboard the S.S. Trans-Atlantic, to escape the district attorney’s graft probe .until the ocean greyhound dock.-> & ;at its European port things begin to happen rapidly, " and not only to Lowe, / cVbut to ‘ his fellow, passengers who in- • clude Lois Moran as the daughter of a German lens grinder, impersonated by - Jean/Hersholt, and an absconding banker, played by John Hnlliday, jvhose nefarious operations, have cost Hersholt his life savings.To add to the complications. Halhday is accompanied by his wife, Myrna Loy, and aboard ship is also Halliday’s light o’, love, a role portrayed by Greta : Nissen. * Lowq gives, what in this reviewer’s, estimation is the best performance of; his career while Lois Moran is as s>veet and convincing as she was in any of her. late pictures. Greta Nissen lends, both her talent and blonde beauty to‘the-production/ while Myrna Loy shows ‘that, she is equally capable in a sympathetic rol,? as she/is in an • exotic,'one. fe.; . Jean Hersholt and John Halhdav both deserve a great deal of credit .for their splendid performances as does William K Howard, who did an excellent job of direction. Good supports.