AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES, . . SPORT OF KINGS” 1 Whirling roundabouts, ' shrieking whistles, “hot-dog’.’ vendors, all the glamorous atmosphere gre4* race day,. .. Derby Day, are shown with, great ’-gusito. ih the screen adaptation of lam. Hay’s racing comedy“‘/The Sport of Kings,”' now at the jj|rincess Theatre—... Derby. Day, of course, is known the y/ " world over as a day. when all of “ merry {England's traditional restraint conservative, nature is crushed, by tihe spirit of recklessl-abandon which j peryades the air on the great day of all <Jays. For .years England has flocked i%; ; her..hundreds of thousands to witriess. theracing classic: - Itindeed a strange sight, especial--lyinTA country wherri;,class, distinction precis to a very {great extent, to, see fashionable .Londoner and bumble yok’Harriving side. by. side, the one in signing .automobile, the other in a creaking dray cart, . 'Asjparticularly picturesque feature isMr and Mrs "Pearly,” one .'phase of English natiQnal life that every; visitor to country knows. Tbl; Coster’s ,dress is comprised in an of pearly; sliel|| which y glm| inand tinkle; in ' tihje and there is probably, nothing. So .strongly suggestive of times, that afe pagsed -.as a - Dearly”- gather-, %-Hte Tturr comedy' Tan Hay (the author,;. of the brilliant ,• "Middle Watch’.!) .has, ~caught] 4he ,vdry-. - spirit, of carni\’ , iil : -“(jid''Engthnd, young arid old.' rich 'pbofV^on'holiday. Leslie Henson, r %i .“UsWattt;'..Grittier, ’1 is gfand as qri.r‘ ; amofops. rural Justice of tltt* who. ’Subsequently takes; .to .■.shbtttrftg',{|hd ; ’'o'dd^;.-'■■■;■ "t •• • 1 ' '! _ lntere^-^V^Tbe 'Sport of-Kings” is heightened' /both by Gordon Harker’s , cockney and 'a- romance In • which Dorothy' Doyd {and Hugh WakefieldtfijmreidTbe' film is a British Do-' minions attraction directed by Victor Savil)e,.,'add »rel6asdd{;byi Greater Australasian Films Ltth’ 'A good selection] of ' stipports will also be shown; ’;