AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S piCTURES. TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. ■> ' ' 7 “IT’S LOVE I’M AFTER.’’ 1 e Movie fans have seen Leslie Howard ’. and Bette Davi s together in a tragedy 1 (“Of Human Bondage”), a melodrama s (“The Petrified Forest”), and now they f are about to present themselves on the '. screen of the Princess Theatre in a 0 comedy. This picture, a Warner Bros. , production called “It’s Love I’m After” s will have its local showing to-nigni 1 And it is said to. offer conclusive proof . that Leslie and Bette are ideal team. s mates, no matter what angle their 1 movie may take. Howard is offered e to the fans—in this movie story—as a t stage actor of the type that used to be . called “matinee idol,’’ and to look at f whom all the sentimental young women J of Broadway used to cluster about stage 3 doors. Miss Davis is shown as hit leading woman. They really love each - other, but that doesn’t prevent'them j from stealing every possible scene they 1 can, and wrangling with each other in - undertones while they’re hypnotising their audiences with their art. The beautiful and youthful Olivia de Haviland ; has the part, of a smart and wealthy ) heiress who has fallen in love with i Howard. The problem that had to be ' worked out by Novelist Maurice Hanline,. Casey Robinson and Director. Archie Mayo was how to. get i Olivia out of her love-madness and restore her to the arms of her real fiance, i played ,by Patric Knowles. Also Cino- ' sound News, cartoon in technieolour, musical medley and Land of the Kangaroo.