AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 73, 8 March 1933, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS

talkies, Hastings ■’ " AFTER THE BAIN” Fpcneer Tracy turns in a bran-new • n'.myal in “After the Hain,” the rvnth bens romance coming to the Cosv Th. atre to-night. As a rough and ready augrant of the seven seas who is turnir„ his hand to pearl-diving with some •in-cess when he suddenly encounters love for the first time, Tracy has a role different from anything he has previCi'.dy done. Advance reports, moreover, *: that his performance in it is sensati nal. ■’eggy Shannon, who was recently n tn the title role of “Society Girl” •n-l who is co-featured in the picture, Is also heralded r.s giving the outstanding portrayal of all her film efforts. V th the support of such players as William (Stage) Boyd, Irving Pichel, Rnul Roulien and Laska Winter and tr .th an exciting and unexpected story, tl is Fox offering is scheduled to be unusually popular during its showings here. John Blystonc directed, with Guy Bolton and Leon Gordon writing the •crecn version of A. C. Kennedy’s pluy. MUNICIPAL THEATRE, HASTINGS "TONIGHT OR NEVER” Gloria Swanson in "To-night or Never,” based on the fiery and ternprstuous Bclasco stage success, conics to the Municipal Theatre. Hastings, to- • 1 ;ht. Produced and presented by Samuel Goldwyn, it brings that producer’s •ptilent and lavish hand to a play fashioned by the greatest stage genius of this generation, the late David Bclasco, • • the last and final effort to his distinguished career. “To-night or Never’’ is a Gloria Swanson returned to the emotional tempo of her first talking picture, “The Trespasser,” or the earlier silent, "Sadie Thompson.” It gives her a warm, fervent role, rich •nd strong in mature womanly feeling. The story concerns an impetuous opera star of Budapest and her search for success and happiness. Critics praise her virfce, but deny that it has genius. They accuse her of having no soul. To the irritation of that, there is added the attention of an unknown young ruin who follows her everywhere like a shadow. Nella is told that her ardent pursuer is the kept protege of a doddering old Marchesa—"a gigolo.” Taunted by her critics and disturbed by the attentions of her admirer, sheer restlessness drives her to his apartment one night. The story then takes up his demand, “Tonight or Never,” her answer nnd the strange phenomenon that made a great artist out of a great finger—and a happy woman out of an Unhappy girl. ARCADIA TALKIES. HASTINGS. "LADIES OF THE JURY.” Commencing for a three-nights’ sesBion at the Arcadia tonight, R.K.O. Pictures present the comedy "Ladies of th>- Jury.’’ Famed by the critics as one of the runniest comediennes in motion pictures, Edna liny Oliver plays the star role in this picture, where she gives a new moaning to comedy in a spoemlly tailored role. "Ladies of the Jury” is the story of a typical mixed jury of men ur.d women who can only agree to disagree. With this plot as the motivating theme ♦he film plunges into an amazing seiio of fomic situations and reveals much »' the inside workings of the jury system

in the process. The film tells the story of twelve different types of jurors who find themselves locked in a room for the purpose of deciding the fate of a pretty show girl accused of murder.

Fights, accusations and constant bickering revolve about the personality of Miss Oliver, who finally w’ins the others to a verdict of not guilty by playing on their emotions and racial differences. The film does not depend on Edna May Oliver to carry along the laughs. Director Lowell Sherman has provided a supporting cast which includes almost a score of the cinema's most noted comedians. Among these are Ken Murray, radio and vaudeville favourite; Rosco Ates, stuttering comedian of "Cimarron”; Kitty Kelly, Guinr "Big Boy” Williams, Kate Price, George Humbert nnd Cora Witherspoon. The film is indeed a riot of laughs and points the merry finger of satire at the mixed-jury system, which expects twelve men and women of ex tremely opposite types to reach a verdict. Excellent supports are included with this very entertaining film. The box plan is now open at the theatre shop, phone 4336.