KING GEORGE THEATRE AND PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

Hutt News, Volume 4, Issue 16, 9 September 1931, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE AND PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

ATTTHOB O.K'S PICTUJfID.

W. R. Burnett, whoso sensationally siieeessfu'l novels hn.\-c nmde tin! one. of the outstanding authors of the year was a visitor at Universal Studios during tho filming of scenes of 'Iron Man' wMoli cornea to the screen at the King: George to-night,- Thursday and Friday, with Lew Ayres as the star.

Burnett's "Iron Man" and "Little Cfoosur" were both Book-of-the Month Club mid literary Guild selections in recent months. His "Saint Johnson" also owned by Universal, has been best seller. "Little Caesar" in film form, has been one of the box office smashes «f the year. Burnett expressed pleasure at the casting of this picture and t3ie veracity with which Tod • B-rowning is adapting it. Francis Edwards Faragoh, who adapted and wrote^ the dialogue of "Little Caesar" also wroio the screen play for "Iron Man."

' 'THE AVENGEE.''

It is difficult now to realize tho extent of lawlessness that characterized frontier life thrce-quartors of a century ago. Those were the days when a rope and a convenient tree, or the everready revolver, took the place of long, .Irawn out trials.

The"-Columbia feature, "The Avenlicu-" .»t;min£ Buck .Timos, whi'-h ir-.omes to the King- George TheHtro to-night aiid Thursday depicts the swift justice of tho glamorous days of California >.n ?4<4. Tbe liK'iv quick on the trigger were the ones who ruled the roost and many who ■grcedly sought gold wound izp in unmarked graves. Buck: Jones, famous screen player, tas the title role in "The Avenger" aad DoTothy Revier plays opposite. Others in the cast are Edward Peil sea* Otto Hoffman, Sidney Bracy and Edwj\r<l HeaTu, Roy William Neill directing. "CHARLEY'S AUHTT." "Charley's Aunt" an hilarious comedy of student life at picturesque Oxford University, is the latest vehicle of that famous player, Charlie Ruggles, n^a comes to the King George Theatre on Saturday next, 12th inst. This comply of life at Oxford University | offer.- the inimitable comedian limitless opportunities for fun making, of which , he takes every advantage. The result is a laugh- marathon. Nobody could possibly sit through this performance; without having his funny bone tickled —and Ruggles is the central figure every time. - . . !

The story revolves about "the impersonation "of a student's aunt by an undergraduate in order to act as chapecon°at a luncheon f6>two girls. The cast is mainly English and incorporated from the English stage. ■

Charlie Ruggles was a happy choice for tho starring tolc. There isn't another comedian 6n the screen to-day who possesses that combination of slapstick and sophisticated humour necessary for the successful interpretation of the "dawager aunt from Brazil/"

3>EAMATIC FH/M OF WAB, SPIES.

Eadio Pictures' all-talking drama, lt lnside the Lines" featuring Betty Compson, opens at the Princo Edward Theatte to-night, 10th September.

directed by Koy J. Pomcroy and featuring a east of English stage and screen stars including Ralph Forbes, Betty Carter, Reginald Sharlaud, Evan Thomas, Montagu Love, Ivan Simpson and Mischa Aver, this pictuTe represents the talkios at their greaetst for de-oth'and power of story and charac-

terisation

"IiATJGH AND GE.QW B3JCH."

"Laugh .and Grow Bich" the 100 per cent. American comedy screening at the Prince Edward next Saturday is the biggest laughing hit since "Bookery N"ook." Again one has to award the palm for rich, caustic, wholesome and natural humour to Edna May Oliver, who TV-as soadmirable in ,'' Cimar- ■ Ton." As Sarah Austin (the wife of shiftless Joe Austin), a boardinghouse keeper, Miss Oliver is responsible for a notable screen ac-Mevement. Jpe steals her savings and investstjiem, in oil, and when all seems at an end, the oil eorao.s to light, and there is an inter--■W lu(li * °^ lavish expenditure. Then* the 7 gush closes down, and it's>back: to 7' the paying guosi", until Alice Austin's, 3 .bcrir • cliani_--''s on :i dollar mill, nnd all is AVl'll. ■