AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYDODYS’ PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY.

THE WASHINGTON MASQUERADE

Washington, with its swirl of political intrigue, social, splendour and the dramatic •details of tne “inside'’ of national political machinery, form a spectacular background for Liuiel Barrymore’s newest appearance on the screen in “The Washington Masquerade.”

I Based on “The Claw,’’ one of the J famous actor’s greatest successes on I the stage, the new Metro-Goldwyn- • Mayer .picture, which is now playing | at the Princess Theatre, presents the actor in a truly “BarrymOre-sized” role, as the senator and political power who is master of men, but nevertheless the tool of a designing woman. Barrymore plays a Midd.e Western senator w'lio becomes a sensational leader and national power. Unab.e to reach him any other way, the lobbyists try a woman, employed to ’ charm' recalcitrant legislators. The senator falls in love with her, marries her, sacj rificcs his career and resigns from the i Senate at her behest. Afte»r he turns ! traitor to his party, he discovers the trick that has been played on him. How he battles it cut before the Senate, tearing down the structure of political manipulation in a final sensational victory forms a powerful climax. diaries Brabin directed the story with deft skill, and many deft human touches ate interspersed amid the' spectacle of president’s receptions and state banquets, impressive speeches on the floor of the Senate and sensational exposures of the “inside” of Washington politics. A good supporting programme will also be shown.