AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

“BIG CITY BLUES.”

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!

The teaming of Joan Blondell and Eric Linden in “Big City Bines,” the Warner Bros', production which is closing to-night at Princess Theatre, is a gratifying sequel to the acclaim with which these two versatile young players were received when they appeared together for the first time in “The Crowd Roars,” with James Cagney.

Such enthusiastic attention was bestowed by critics all over the country on Eric Linden, as the ambitious kicl brother of James Cagney,, and Joan Blondell, as the boy’s sweetheart, that Warner Bros, immediately made preparations to bring them together again. “Big City Blues,” it was felt, offered both Blondell and Linden even wider scope for their talents than 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 in 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 Yidu in each other.

A cast of experienced Broadway players surrounds Miss Blondell, the star. Among these, besides Eric Linden, are Walter Catlett, Lyle Talbot, Guy Kibbce, Inez Courtney, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks, Humphrey Bogan., Evalyn Knapp, Thomas Jackson, Sheila Terry, Grant Mitchell and Clarence .Muse. Also showing the great picture “Divorce Among Friends.”, This programme is recommended by the censor more especially lor adult audiences.