AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. ♦ / TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! "SANDERS OF THE RIVER.”, At the Princess Theatre to-night Paul Robeson will be seen in his latf esfc, picture "Sanders of the River”*, adapted from Edgar Wallace’s famous ; story, a magnificent epic of British! courage in a far flung outpost of the British Empire. There is'a strong supporting cast including Leslie Banks, , Nina Mae McKinney and a thousand others. The supporting programme j includes Cinesound News, Flying Pigskins (sports), Screen -Snapshots and Mouse cartoon. FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MATINEE NIGHT. ;.W"THE GREAT ZIEGFELD." "The Great Ziegfold,” Motro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s gianit picture, ope/ning , v to-morrow at the Princess Theatre, .can .. be • described as the world’s greatest e liter tainTji out. "The Great Ziegfold” has .more "first-rate entertainment within its sixteen reels than any other piej.; ture "musical” or otherwise/A musiivical extravaganza this story of AmerY; iea’s greatest showman and the glorification i of the modern girl possesses ■ 'dine, dramatic quality. Willirn Powell, | Myrna. Loy and Louise Rainer tell a * story suggested by the career of Elor- % enz Ziegfeld, with Powell as Ziegfeld, . Miss Lpy ;a'y Rillie Burke and Miss Rainer, as ] Anna Held. Supporting the A triufirate ' ate Virginia Bruce, Frank } . Morgan, Nat Pendleton, Reginald -,Vj Owen, Jean Chatburn, Ernest Cossart : and Herman Bing. Owing to the length of-the picture the performances will commence as follow sFriday 7.40 p.m., Sa&urday matinee 2 p.niv, evening 7.50 p.m. Patrons from Ross are notified that the picture ' will finish in time to catch the late V' train. REGENT -iHEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND FRIDAY. "15 MAIDEN LANE" AND. "LADY , BE CAREFUL.” "Lady'' Be Careful ” Paramount’s laugh-riot, comedy of sailors on shore leave in Panama City, featuring Lew . Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Larry Crabbe, Benny Baker and Grant AVithers, opens - to-night at the Regent Theatre. The [ picture ig based on a screen play written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Harry Ruskin from a play by Kenycrt Nicholson and Charles Robinson, and-is directed by Paramount’s J. T. Reed-. "Lady Be Careful" introduces Ayres, as a timid , gob whose inexperience Avith-"Women has earned hifli the name "Dud” among his crew mates. Crabbe, a Marine, ha s a reputation for having left a String of broken hearts reaching halfway around the world. Current .fashion’s preference for rich metal-threaded and embroidered silks | and velvets; veritable fabric jewels, is ] Vividly on display in “lo Maiden! Lane,” Twentieth Century-Fox drama of the world’,s jewel centre coming to J !:bc Regent Theatre to-night. Due to last-minute changes in the story, additions to Claire Trevor’s lavishly j / ueautiful: Avardrobe had to be made in ’ 4. hurry, and a number of gorgeous J French fabrics Avhich had just arrh'ed in Ncav York AA-ore rushed by plane to Hollywood.- Handsome Cesar Romero plays opposite Miss Trevor in this thrilling story of Diamond Roav.