SING GEORGE THEATRE AND PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 46, 23 April 1931, Page 5

SING GEORGE THEATRE AND PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

SEE FINANGIAIi FREEDOM AS WOMAN'S ONLY OUTLET. .

AVomen will never know true equality until all are financially independent of men, is the opinion of Ruth Chatterton, stage and screen star who has the leading role in Paramount's all-talking pieluro, "Oharmin'g Sinners," which ,will show at the Prince Edward Theatre on Saturday, May 2nd.

'' M*alo domination,'' she says, '' is based on earning capacities more than 01: superior mental equipment. Married Vomqn who have no children. are right to seek careers which will enable them to make money of their own. It is a fine gesture, indeed, and proves to any man that hi« wife lives with him *b'oeaase of loa'c, and not for the indolence and luxuries with. which he can j provide her."

W. Somerset Maughan, who wrote '' Charming Sinners,'' has captured a part of the truth of Miss Chat'terton 's idea, raid lias -woven a particularly clever domestic drama about it. "AFRICA SPEAKS:?' .. "Africa Speaks/ 5 which comes to the King George Theatre on 29th, 30th April and May Ist and Matinee' on Wednesday at 3.15jv and at Prince Edward on Monday 27th April and a special matinee on Tuesday at 3 p.m, is a gra.phic motion picture and> sound record of a trip taken by-Paul L.^ Hoefler through the hitherto unexplire'i re gions of Africa.

HoefltT, who represented the Colorado African Expedition/ started inland from Lagos, on the Atlantic Ocean His objective was Mombasa, on the Indian Ocean, a route which necessitated his penetrating the heart of equatorial Africa. '

Two -weeks" spent among the pygmies of the Ituri forest resulted in some remarkably intimate motion picture stiidies..of. these mysterious little people of whom the civilised world knows little. At Dilewa in Northern Nigeria Hoefler and his party were entertained royally by the Emir of Dikwa himself, who met them with a, native brass band and feasted them .in kinigly style. Other friendly natives were the Masai spearmen, who use only spears and shields in hunting the king of beasts Thrilling photograjphs of hand-to-hand con flicts wer-3 tak.3n,and are shown in the film. ..'■■"'■■.

The giants in the film are the members of the Wfisara tribe. Mkny of them are 7ft tall and few of the warriors are less than 6ft in height. They dominate' the Sara" River country, and are said to be the aJblest hunters found on the dark continent.

The Wapara- savage.* is extremely super s/titious, and inflicts horrible wounds on his. face to, frighten away evil

spirits

His ideas of what .constitutes

femiitiine.;beauty.rar,e even more: strange | Early in childhood the females ■of the tribe are forced, to iris%rt wooden discs in their lower .lips. The size of, these discs -,is-2 gradually -increased, until a Wsusara. bea^uty —when she is of marri-ageable-age—frequently has a lower lip 12in in diameter. The larger her

mouth the moxc desirable she is as a wife.

BEEING- HIMSELF.

A comedian who has an amusing 'bit' part in The wo Black Crows, l^Qran and Mack's latest starring Paramount picture, "Anybody's War/ which shows at tho Kiiiig George Theatre shortly, will prob&ibly not live long enough to appear in another movie, althoivgh he is only a few months old.

The, fun-provider is Buzzo, a trained bee, who has a scene with Charles Mack leader of the fanhbus black-face team.

Buzzo is one of a collection of dtoncs secured "by the Paramount property department for this hilarious comedy romane-e. Drones being non-workers in the hive, have no stingers, but plenty of buzz, thereby making them excellent foi^-use before tho microphones.

- Since bees are short-lived this will probably bo Buzto's last screen por-

trayal

PIRST DRAMATIC HOLE AT 18

At tile age of eighteen, Lilian "Roth 'is playing her^ first draanatie role,, and! in the mighty Paramount all-colour, all talking, production " The Vagabond King." Miss Roth was born in Boston and at the age of five, aipp eared in a: motion picture. A few years "later, saw her on the stage in vaudeville, and then she had a small part in one of the famed Broadway shows, and from this auspicious start jsjhe rapidly became

k'nojwn; as one of the cleverest I3lu.es singer on Broadway. She was featured' in the Ziegfeld Follies. She was en-, gaged by Para/mount to make short acts for the talkies, and so successful was she, that she was given a part in "The Love Parade," and later in 'The Valgabbnd King . where she plays the role of Huguette. This mighty production comes to the King G-eorge Theatre nsxt Monday and Tuesday. "THE TEXAN."

Gary Cooper and IViy "Wray, who play the leads in "The Texan" a Paramount all-talking western, which show's at the Prince Edward Theatre on, Wednesday 29th' are appearing together for the first time since they were co-fea-tured in '' The Legion of the Condemn cd." They are supported by Emma Dunn, Oscar Apf el, James Marcus, and

Donald Eeed. the picture.

John Cromwell directed