KING GEORGE THEATRE and PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 25, 13 November 1930, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE and PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

"CAUGHT tf&ORT."

Marie. Dressier and Polly Moran will be Wstarredv-"1n Metro-Goldwyri-May-er'fi allta*Mng / comedy "-Caught Short 5' whlcß? will open on Saturday at the K3n~g George Theatre with a supporting cast including Anita Page, Charles Mor ton, Herbert Prior, T. Roy Barnes, EdwaTd Dillon, Alice Mo.c, Gwen Lee, Lee KoilroaT and Greta Grandstedt. The comedy team will be seen as Washington Square (New York City^) boarding house-keepers who achieve a rapid rise from poverty to w.ealth. as a result of dabbling in the stock market, only to lose all when the Wall-street crasib. occurs. A romance between Miss Page and Morton has an important share in the,.plot.-- ..■■■ ,^ ■--■■ The situations of this comedy ar,o said to be uproariously funny, particularly in the early sequences of the picture in which Miss Dressier and Miss Moran are seen iri their boarding house activities'" and again later wh!en with ; the .sudden acquisition of wealth they attempt to play the "grand ladies." " TROOPERS THREE." The most picturesque, romantic and adventurous branci. of the army—the ca:v*lry—is the real hero of "Troopers Thiiee' the Tiffany all-talking production to be released by Cinema Art Films at the King G-eorge and Prince Edward Theatres next week. Arthurr Guy Empey, World War liero and a1 member of the 11th TJ,S. Cavalry, which pferforms thrillingly in the production, is the author of the story, which has been directed by Norman Taurog. Bex. Lease, Dorothy Gulliver, Rbscoe Karns and Slim 'Summerville head the cast. The breezy and attractive? Lease plays the role-,.0f a egotistical song'rand dance man of vaudeville, who thiifks he is getting thirty days of free bed and board from the Government by joining the Citizens' Training Camp, and find that he has been tricked into signing up for t>hree years in the Cavalry. Sis companions are Ros- > coe Karns ami Slim *Suminerville, acrobats. - The tricks .played upon these, three misfit -rookies by tho regular troopers provide the comedy. Drama and romance is supplied by. the rivalry between Eddie,, played by liease, and v Hank, played oy Tom London. Hank has a whole-souled love for pretty Dorothy Clark, played by Dorothy Gulliver, but Eddie is a philanderer and his love" is_not serious taitir he has taken some pretty tough knocks^ ' "REDEMPTION." John Gilbert will' make his second all-talking appeaTance next week at t>he King George Theatre in "Redemption" an ic&aptatibh- of Lyof Tolstoi's noted drama, "The Living Corpse." '■ "'•*'•■ Gilßert's success in two past productione adapted from the works of the Russian novelist and playwright, namely "Love," with Greta Garbo and ''Tie Cossacks," with Renee Adoree, is said to have influenced Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer in choosing "Redemption" as Ids next starring picture. "Redemption" is a far cry from the ' ordinary run of cinema products in being the psychological study of a man who is driven to a desperate act/ in ' ehooßing between loyalty to his wife and the call of hereditary gypsy blood. Information is that the producers maintained an artistic in not' stooping to tack a sugar-coated happy endirfg into a story permeated with, a tragic motive. Pred No.blo directed the production. The supporting cast of this unusual Mm "contains such prominent names as Benee Adoree^ 'Eleanor Bpardman and Conrad Nagel. .-' : "BLACKMAIL.'' When you see the British xnternational all-talkie "Blackmail" which Cinema Art Films are releasing at the Prince Edward Theatre next Saturday yon "will perceive a rather stout gentleman, who causes quite a commotion in the cramped surroundiigs of a London Tube railway carriage. This flayer, al-. though taking only a minor xole, in the cast of the picture, is nevertheless responsible for the ; success of the entire film, for it is no less a personality than Alfred Hitchcock, *^°.: f »mou?.. director ■ himself. "./.... It came" as a great surprise to his f wends, who saw the first screening of " fMi i *■■■■ -■•"• ■■'■'■••• "' ' '"' '■ ■

the film, at a trade snow in London, Tv&.en they saw such an eminent director playing a part, in his own picture, but when they challenged him on the subject his sole reply was that he just wanted to show that he could do what he expected others to do. . .r ■ Alcting and speaking in "Blackmail" which is Britain Js first .bid in. tJie talkie mart, is a cast including some of England's foremost stage celebrities, among whom are John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood, and Phyllis Monkman. The leading female role is portrayed by Army Ondra. "PEACOCK ALLEY." The story of "Peacock Alley" which conies to Prince Edward Theatre is as follows;— , The managers of the select ParkPlaza Hotel, New York, are disturbed over' the way women loiter. in.-tB.-eir Peacock Alley and pick up partners from among their male guests. It threatens to ruin the reputation of t>he house. A new detective, Diugan, is engaged to remedy this condition. Dugan iss watching the smartly dressed throng in Peacock Alley when Claire Tree en- . ters. i^rom her actions it would app-ear that she picks lip Stoddard G-layton, a rich New • Yorker living at r the• ParkPlaza. Dugan watches him invite-her to supper and later sees them-"taike an elevator to* Olaytori's suite. At dawn Olaire ' leaves t»he hotel and Dugan draws a wrong conclusion. • Stoddard has . declared an undying Jove for Claire and offered her everything except marriage,: in which she is old-fashioned ■ enough: to believe. After a long parting, she has sought Stoddard in the -hope that he has'^Tianged 3iis ideas, for, of all her suitors, he is the only one she ldves. But he '' is A as; certain as ever that marriage destroys love and 'happiness and he tears all "her argument^ with. Kis cynicism; Failing, s>he tells him' that she is going to marry • Jini Bradbury;1 of -Texasy"on the morrow. This is a iblow to Stoddard, who cannot believe she Would marry a man she only respects, but Claire will not accept his proposal—so she goes home. ' ' "THE DELICKHTFTJIi BOGUE." B'omance goes to sea with a 1929 piraftein ct The T&ogue," the ali-taikihg Picture featuring 3Rod La, Bocque, which comes to the Prince Edward Theatre next week *'The Delightful Rogue" is the fi*st sea story made in sound. It tells of the adventures and lov.es of Lastro, a pirate who steals a millionaire's yachts "The Golden Bule," and sets to plundering a group of tropical isles. How he mets'Nydra, whose dancing is the delight of an island cafe; how he aids her in a unique, test of another's love and how he and his crew of colourful vagabonds settle an.affair with, t&e police of Tapit form the high' lights of Wallace Smith's yarn, which1 he adapted from his own original Coc'mbspblitan story "A Woman Decides.''