AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. "DOWN TO EARTH.” Back to his native Oklahomo agam after filming his recent pictures against various foreign locales, Will Rogers has the star role in ‘‘Down to Earth,” his new Fox offering which opens at the Princess Theatre to-night.' With ilio recital of a business man’s efforts to balance his dwindling income against his laniily’s social ambitions and extravagance as its theme, the picture is being hailed everywhere as the most timely as- well us the funniest production of the noted humourist’s career Rogers fans will* recall the hectic adventures of Pike Peters and his family abroad in “They Had To See Paris.’’ his first talking ''picture. In “Down to Earth” the whimsical “Pike” reappears a. ten his trip, /once more guiding the destinies of hips oil company. The recent Wall Street crash, however, has seriously affected his holdings and he bo. conies ■worried iover his family’s expenditures. The failure of a bank in which he is interested brings matters to., a crisis, hastened when his wife’s social aspirations wreck his attempts to negotiate a loan from the local bank. Irene Rich again enacts the role of Mrs Pe’tefis; Avith Dorothy Jordan, Matty Kemp, Mary Carlisle, Theodore Lodi, Brandori 1 Hurst and many other noted players in the supporting cast.