AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES.

GRAND HOTEL

Five stars instead of one - shine in “Grand Hotel,” spectacular picturisation of the celebrated Vicki Baum novel and play, to be shown to-night at the Princess Theatre. Probably no film in recent years has attracted as much advance attention as this unusual screen drama which i s described as a symbolical study of human nature in startling realisation.

Grand Hotel differ s fundamentally from the usual type of screen entertainment. It is not a story in the ordinary sense of the 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 Gravel Hotel and here you will meet the guests of a few fleeting hours. You will step into their lives; .you will walk with them into the very privacies ot their thoughts; you will watch the threads of their lives twist and tangle, and one by one their secrets will be laid bare. The theme of the Grand Hotel covers a period of two days only, 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 o«.