AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “Sd Big," the tftlkiug picture version of' Edna Ferbei’s novel, now showing at the . Majestic Theatre, leaves one with many impressions, all of which ftfe deep aiid moving, but the

main and most enduring memory is the

performance of Barbara Stanwyck as Sdlna Peake, who, after the death of lull father and mother, obtains work as a\ school teacher in a small Dutch settl'emeiit near Chicago. She lives at the home of a crude farmer, whose son, Roe If (played by George Brent, who! in real life is the husband oi RutfiVOhatterton), she helps with his lessons, and who adores her. Eventually Selina marries one of the farmers, Pervus (le Jong, and her life becomes the drudgery of a farmer's wife. I’erviis dies and leaves Selina nothing but the farm. As her whole life is centred in her son, Dirk, she works to send him to college, finally establishing him in an architect's office. Dirk (Hardic Albright) is .weak and leaves his prospects in this direction to take a position as a bond salesman. He falls in love with Dalals O’Meara, a beautiful yottng; gnl and talented artist, played by Bette Davis (last soon in “The Man Who Played God with George Arliss). Sh' will not mat it hint because he has none of the qualities of pioiicer strength. In the ■ meantime. RoClf, who liad left the farm at his mother's death, lias become a reiiQW'iied sculptor. Oti his return from Ram he goes to the farm with Dirk and Dallas. Selina sees what Boclf has become and instinctively compared him with her son. The ’firm is brought to a conclusion with her rejoicing over the success of Roeif. “Believe It Or Not,” ly cartoon entitled ‘' The Inventor, ’ ’ a Ncws- . reel, and two comedies will be screened in addition to “So Big.” “MOVIE CRAZY” Without doubt, “Movie -Crazy,” which will have its New Zealand premiere presentation at the Regent Theatre on Saturday, is the funniest comedy Harold Lloyd has made,since “College Days arid “Grandma’s Boy," and it proves-it any proof were needed—that the two years of silence have only served to mature and perfect the comedian’s art. Copstance Cummings heads a supporting cast of exceptional excellence. Her role is an exacting one. Tim second male lead is in the "hands of Kenneth Thompson and Louise Closscr Hale shaves honors with the stellar coined inn in the most hilarious of the many hilarious sequences. Lloyd himself has never been in finer form than in his vole of a movie-struck bov from a small town who “crashes” the gates of Hollywood. He hits tiiade of the boy a lovable, luuiiaii character and lias placed him in a comedy that 'is one continuous laugh from start to finish. Lloyd has kceiily satirised the studios be knows so well Of course, there is a girl.