AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY.

“BIG CITY BLUES.”

The teaming of Joan Blondell and Eric Linden in “Big City Blues,” the Warner Bros’, production which is opening to-day at the Princess Thpatre, i s a. gratifying sequel to the acc.aim with which these two versatile young players were received when they appeared together for the first tune in “The Crowd Boars,” with James Cagney. Such enthusiastic attention was bestowed by critics all over the country on Eric Linden, as the ambitious km brother or James Cagney' and Joan Blondell, as the boy’s sweetheait, that Warner Bros, immediately made preparations to bring them together again. "Big City Bines,” it wa s felt, offered both Blondell and Linden even wider scope for, their talents tnan the previous picture had 'given them. Fundamentally, the story of “Big City Blues” is the story of the whirlwind adventures of a boy and girl from the country thrown together ill the maelstrom of New York.

Through the stormy, terrifying experiences of the three days that follow their meeting, everything that happens to them only deepens the interest of Bud and Vida in each other. A cast of experienced Broadway players SUIT ounds Miss Blondell, the star. Among these, besides Eric Linden, are Walter Catlett, Lyle Talbot, Guy Kibbee, Inez Courtney, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks, Humphrey Bogart, Evalyn Knapp, Thomas Jackson, Sheu-i Terry, Grant Mitchell and Clarence Muse. Also showing the great picture “Divorce Among Friends.”, This programme is recommended by the censor more lor adult audiences.