AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT and SATURDAY. “DODSWORTH.” Sinclair Lewis’ “Dodsworth,” which thrilled millions as a novel and as a stage play, now comes to the screen in Samuel Goldwyn’s ' film production which begins to-night at the Princess Theatre, with Walter Huston, Ruth Ohatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astoi and David Niven in the leading roles. Huston again plays the title role oi ■ Sam Dodsworth tne easy-going American husband, who retires to tra.ei and find himself but, instead finds ou. his fiivolous, selfish and extravagant wife, who yearns for one last fling before settling down to middle’ ago Tney sail on- the Queen Alary and after a series of flirtations on shipboard ana in Paris, Fran meets Kurt Von obef•sdorf,.an impoverished young Austrian aristocrat, who asks her to marry' him. She divorces Dodsworth, who IsGeft to wander miserably through ' Europe alone. In Italy he meets Mrs Cortright, a. line, sympathetic woman,, and they fall in love. When Fran’s plans fall through, site sends for him to join her. But the contrast .with Mrs Cortright is too great. He sees Fran a e for what she really is and-returns to the woman he loves.