ON THE FILMS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 248, 10 June 1932, Page 7

ON THE FILMS

"TRANSGRESSION" AND "THE SKIN GAME SHOWING AT DE LUXE OPOTIKI TALKIES . "Transgression," showing to-night at the De Luxe, features Kay Francis and Ricardo Cortez. It is the "story of a woman whose husband is called away on business for some considerable time. He leaves his wife to amuse herself and await his return in Paris. While waiting for the return of her husband, ■ the lady becomes friendly with a Spaniard, so friendly in fact that she decides to leave her husband. She goes to Spain to join this friend, but another woman shoots him. The errant wife flees to England and her legal husband to avoid being mixed up in such an unpleasant affair as murder. Subsequently the husband hears of the Spanish friend, and proves big enough to ignore this and let bygones be bygones. This is an old plot with some rather new features in it. "THE SKIN GAME" "The Skin Game," by John Galsworthy, is the story of a fight between and old and historic family and an extremely rich but new manufucturer. The trouble occurs when the manufacturer, who is played by Edmund Gwenn, buys some ground for a new factory site, which will spoil the historic view from the hall owned by the Hillcrists. The fued becomes very bitter indeed, and though it may be said that the aristocrats gain the victory the means by which they gain it are such that they are left wondering if it has been worth while. Two gowns worn by Phillis Konstam in this pieture will probably be of interest to the womenfolk. One is in phosfore satin and picador. This i later material, which is heavier than georgette, is ideal for clinging and draping effects. The gown worn by Miss Konstam is in'fed, cut low back and front, aftd with an unusual tulle hem from knee to feet. The shoul- | der straps are noticeable for their ! narrow width, and the sole decoration is a flying bird in diamante on the bodice. The other is p, satin gown : with a diagonal neck-line and a long • skirt of sunray pleatihg.- In. opposi- j tion to the neck-line, are rows of dia- ? mante and minute pin tucks which ' run from "the bodice and hip to the top of the pleating. An innovation is a diamante clasp which fastens a tas- , sel of satin on the breast. Since it is in this gown that Phyllis ' Konstam "drowns" in the tragic story, an exact duplicate had to be made in less expensive naaterial- for this particular episode.