ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 12 April 1934, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

"YOU CAN’T BUY EVERYTHING,” MAJESTIC, TO.NIGHT May Robson dallies with high finance, mother-love, and here and there a comedy interlude, in one of the remarkable rofes of her screen career, in “You Can’t Buy Everything,” the gripping drama of’ a woman financier orv Wall Street, screening to-night at the Majestic Theatre. A powerful dramatic theme deals with the conflict between a money-mad woman’s craving for gold and love for her crippled son. In addition, there is the motive of vengeance on a former lover who jilted her in her youth. She wrecks banks and shakes Wall Street- with hqr manipulations and coups. Then, her revenge complete on the hanker she hates, she finds her son and his .laughter in love, and a tremendous dramatic climax follows. Miss Hobson gives a great, powerful characterisation to a story unique in the annals of the screen. Lewis Stone plays the suave banker on whom her hate is expended, and youthful Jean Parker is his daughter, loved by William Bakcwell in the role of Miss Robson’s son. Mary Forbes plays the society woman friend who tries to steer her from money-madness to a sense of motherly duty, and Tad Alexander enacts the son as a child. Reginald Mason, Walter Walker, Reginald Barlow, and others of note are if. the cast. VISIT OF H.M.S. DUNEDIN Towards the end of the Great War it was realised that entertainments for the men were of the utmost value in Dm work of restoring depreciated morale, and great encouragement was given to the pierrot and similar troupes then formed in the army and navy, and quite largo sums were expended on them. Ihe shows were usually of a very high order. These parties of artists have their counterpart to-day in the Navy, Army and Air Force, and an opportunity "will be given on Saturday, the 14th, to seo iI.M.S. Dunedin’s effort, which is reputed to he of a very high standard. Bookings are at Beggs’ Music Stores.