AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

GRAND HOTEL. TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY. Five stars instead of one shine m “Grand Hotel,” spectacular picturisation of the celebrated Yicki Baum novel and play, to be shown to-night at the Princess Theatre. Probably no film »« recent years has attracted as much advance attention as this unusual screen drama which is described as a symbolical study of human nature in startling realisation. Grand Hotel, differ*, fundamentally from the usual type of screen entertainment. It is not a story in the ordinary sense of tlie word. It is more! It is the story of life in a great European hotel-smart, glittering, gay. Outwardly respectable, yet sheltering tragedy, comedy, despair and intrigue! Life swirls endlessly through , the Grand Hotel and here you will meet the guestsof a few fleeting hours. You will, step into their lives; you will walk with them into the very privacies of their; thoughts ; you will watch the threads of their lives twist and tangle, and one by one their secrets will be laid bare.. The tli e me of . the Grand Hotel covers a period of two days Qnly. but those two days reveal a rich panorama of life. Picture yourself' a guest—a Very intimate guest at the Grand Hotel,* and what you will see and hear will live in your memory long, after your stay is finished, while life in the Grand Hotel goes On and on.