NEW THEATRE PICTURES

Opunake Times, 28 February 1933, Page 3

NEW THEATRE PICTURES

“THE EXPERT” TO-NIGHT A CHARMING PICTURE. An appreciative audience witnessed the first screening of “The Expert” at (lie New Theatre last night. The story tells of the old grandpa we all know, coining to live with his son and daughter-in-law after a life-time in a small city. Alone in the world, be has no one to turn to except bis children. But the difference in age, the always changing ideas of successive generations throw him out of line. He has been a different life-routine, lie does not realise this and goes his sincerely meddlesome way in an effort to help, usually hindering. He estranges bis daughter-in-law’s fellow club members, antagonises the cook and generally has his say on almost everything. The picture is full of hum. our and pathos.

“SURRENDER” COMING. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY The great picture “Surrender” is coining this week - and features AYaruer Baxter and Delia Hyams. The period of .“Surrender” is that of 1917 and 1918 and the setting is a desolate prison camp on the iev shores of the Baltic, the war itself is merely an unseen and unheard, but tremendously important, background for the unusual love between the principals. Out of the bitterness of conflict, the despair of a girl who sees her fiance oft to a front from which she instinctively knows he will never return, and the baffled hopes and repressed emotions of half-starv-ed prisoners, is woven a brilliant, absorbing and intensely human drama, and one that preserves to a notable degree the power of Pierre Benoit’s “Axelle,” on which it is based.