AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

COSY TALKIES, HASTINGS “ AFTER THE KAIN” Spencer Tracy turns in a brand-new portrayal in “After the Kain,” the South Seas romance showing at the Cosy Theatre to-night. As a rough and ready vagrant of the seven seas who is turning his hand to pearl-diving with some success when he suddenly encounters love for the first time. Tracy bas a role different from anything he has previously done. Advance reports, moreover, say that his perforamnee in it is sensational. Peggy Shannon, who was recently seen in the title role of “Society Girl” and who is Co-featured in the picture, is also heralded as giving the outstanding portrayal of all her film efforts. With the support of such players as William (Stage) Boyd, Irving Piehcl, Haul Koulien and Laska Winter and with an exciting and unexpected story, this Fox offering is scheduled to be unusually popular during its showings hero. John Blystone directed, with Guy Bolton and Leon Gordon writing the screen version of A. C. Kennedy 's play. MUNICIPAL THEATRE, HASTINGS “TO-NIGHT OR NEVER” Gloria Swanson in “To-night or Never,” based on the fiery and tempestuous Belasco stage success, screens at the Municipal Theatre, Hastings, tonight. Produced and presented by Samuel Goldwyn, it brings that producer's opulent and lavish hand to a play fashioned by the greatest stage genius of this generation, the late David Belasco, as 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 sildnt, “Sadie Thompson.” It gives her a warm, fervent role, rich and strong in mature womanly feeling.

The story concerns an impetuous opera star of Budapest and her search for success and happiness. Critics praise her voice, but deny that it has genius. They accuse her of having no soul. To tho irritation of that, there is added the attention of an unknown young man who follows her everywhere like a shadow. Nella is told that her ardent pursuer is tho kept protege of a doddering old Marehesa —“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, “To-night or Never,” her answer and the strange phenomenon that made a great artist out of a great singer—and a happy woman out of an unhappy girl. ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS. “LADIES OF THE JURY.” The R.K.O. Pictures comedy “Ladies of the Jury” will continue its season at the Arcadia Talkies to-night. Famed by the critics at one of the funniest comediennes in motion pictures, Edna May Oliver plays the star role in this picture, where she gives a new meaning to comedy in a specially tailored role.

“Ladies of the Jury” is the story of a typical mixed jury of men and women who can only agree to disagree. With this plot as the motivating theme, the film plunges into an amazing series of comic situations and reveals much of 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, frights, accusations and constant bickering revolve about the personality of Miss Oliver, who finally wins 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 ths cinema’s most noted comedians.