AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. . TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. "THE RULING VOICE.” ■ Walter Huston as the head of the milk combine is not a gangster in “The Ruling Voice,” the First Nationa) picture which is now playing at the Princess Theatre .Mr Huston watched not only himseli and everyone around him so that no trace 'of the popular conception of thp criminal should creep into the characterisation. He did not carry a gun, talk out of the corner of his mouth, nor butcher the King’s English. “Let’s have a 'bit Of business,” he suggested to Director Rowland V. I-.ee, “in which someone offers me a cigarette, which I refuse on the polite plea that I. do' not smoke!” This caution was necessitated by the fact that the picture is built around conditions and persons which actually exist in large metropolitan cities. Speculation with the food supply* is carried on by educated business executives who run their affairs not as a gang—but as a syndicate with a board of directors and an elaborate suite of offices. Huston plays the part as the heaid of this syndicate. Others in the cast of “The Ruling Voice” are Loretta Young, Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, David Manners, Gilbert Emery, John Hallidav, Willard Robertson and Douglas Scott. A good euppporting programme will also be shown.