AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES.

y TO-NIGHT | . TO-NIGHT! MONTE BLUE SUPERB IN BIG ALL-TALKING UNDERWORLD SMASH. ' ■■ & •• ' 1 ' '\v.- < • A b'ig city’s underworld-Asinister and treacherous rival gang leaders 'j with their ruthless followers ready to kill at a moment’s notice—darkened streets with death hiding in every shadew-Vpainted dolls hanging on the armk~ of their favoured gunmen — watchful detectives silently smoking cigarettes and watching—the whole air is tense and seems charged—anything is liable to happen at any time. Such is the deeply dramatic setting' of ‘‘Skin Deep,” Warner Bros, alltalking Vitaphone production, starring Monte Blue and coming to the Princess Theatre to-night aud Saturday. Laid in a great metropolis, “Skin Deep” presents the human side of the underworld. It depicts the lives of several people thrown into the maelstrom of lawlessness. One is a scarred and repulsive gang lead-, er,whose hideous face has compelled. ' hint to be a crook. Another, a wo-; msfof' whose beautiful face hides 'a • fiendish desire for gold. The other, a rival gang power whose dapper,. appearance never once bespeaks his callous inner self. Regeneration-comeS-

to the gangster, through the mediation of a child and the love for a good woman. Monte Blue and John Davidson portray the rival gangsters in - “Skills CoPPson play§u£Ke' womldfii The' supporting cast 3 {lisd -vihoHdek’li.i'Dayey Lee, Alice Das John Bowers, Georgie Stone, Tilly Marshall, Robert Perry and others. Ray Enright directed “Skin D#ip,” from 'Gordon Rigby’s,, adaptatibij of Mark Edmund Jones’, tstory Supporting this picturey/a further episode (if . the Serial talkie -subjects wiUyybej.C presented. ?‘Anna frray and'hdtVßey ‘Uriemle,” Avitli Rom -Warp|^^j.;hm^Jrch^tra a renditionof' -popdiar'i Isongs ! “Thanksgiving v^j9, kin « : k comedy ;3>fn: the Htyo’S' > one of’.tab best t||f y£ijrie#^ stage. ‘|£ opttl%pa.4,istp|' ' Glick arid Peggy • of sevenjeen popufht : 1 Jan* Rubini,’i|master his besti' and “m McLeod, entertainer. yf ; ' jifr/NN'-M.;,... • Usual’prices: Circle 2s; Stalls Mis bd. ' plus ta.xjJ