AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1933, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! ’ "LORD BABS” AND "WHITEFACE”

"Lord Babs,”t the production of which directly followed that of "Sunshine Susie” on the Gainsborough set, is a screen version of the successful farce of the same name written by Keble Howard, and originally staged for a long run at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. The dialogue has" been, revised for screen purposes* and lyrics have been written by Clifford Grey. “Lord Babs” is a farce of the broadest type and Bobby Howes, the famous London comedian, i s responsible for most of the fun.

Every advantage has been taken or the twists and turns or the mystery in Edgars Wallace’s “Whiteface,”' made by Gainsborough British Lion at the Beaconsfield --studio, and due at the Princess Theatre to-night A hold-up crook, who wears a white mask when raiding restaurants and relieving women of their jewels, works so rapidly and mysteriously that Scot-

land Yard is puzzled. An inexplicable murder is committed at Tidal Basin,' and during their investigations one of the police is assaulted by "Whiteface,” which seems to definitely connect him with the murder.* This picture of thrills ; holds the viewer nonplussed until the very one - ’ ■ ‘