AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES.

“HIS WIFE’S MOTHER.”

, Featuring the inimitable comedian Glii. s McNaughton, supported by. a very strong cast. “His , Wife’s Mother” is tlie chief attraction at the Pi in.ess Theatre to-night. Seldom' has a picture ao intriguing, so complicated and so exceeding funny been introduced on the local, screen It is a mad, merry matrimonial mix-up containing its full quota ot laughs and thrills. The “inevitable mpther-in-huy.”. ' Marjon Dawson, gives, .an excellent interpretation of a difficult role, and others in tbo cast include Jerry Ve,nio, Molly Lamont, Jimmy Gcdden, lienee Gadd and Jack Hobbs, Good supports, Universal exhibition.

“CAVALCADE.”

TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY AIXD

THURSDAY

On Tuesday. . and Wednesday, next (race nights) and Thursday, the .wonder piqture ‘'‘Cavalcade’' .will be presented at Princess Theatre. This . wooder pl a y appeals to. pretty nearly .every emotion to ..which the human heart is susceptible. That is the ■ principal reason why it \vas selected by. a Hollywood film company ipr. productionas a , supeiypicture. Casting more than- a million dollars (about, £300,000 at -present rates of exchange)portraying scenes in which as many as 5,000 “extras!' aye employed, and utilising specially... built, “sets” costing approximately *£80,000.. “Cavalcade’’ i s the most ambitious screen entertainment ever undertaken- anywhere.. “Cavalcade” tells of a mother's protective instincts frustrated : £y the chauvinistic policies of governments, which lead to war and. then fatten on the patriotism and adventurous spirits of the., youth of the nation. Noel Coward, its author, contrived to focus these emotions and their inevitable developments over the, generation, more than three decades, squarely on to the hearthstone pf a single family in London. It will give to the 250,000,000 English speaking people of the worldthe finest picture of. English ideals and ■customs /ever dpnveyed through, any single medium,/ .