AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE Gloria- Swanson has the part of an impetuous opera singer in “To-night or Never,” which will be screened for the last time this evening at the Regent Theatre, and gives the actress all the opportunities she needs to display her remarkable In lent. Gay repartee and amusing situations follow in quick succession. The spotlight is turned oil Hollywood, tlm great film metropolis of tho I’uited .States, with its bright lights, gaiety, life and tragedies, in “What Price Holywood,” which will commence a. season on Saturday. Everything is laid bare for the inspection of the picture-going uublic. The mysteries of “sets,” the temptations of success, the disappointments of rising stars, and many unusual aspects of the method oi producing pictures are presented in interesting fashion, Constance Bennett figures as the leading lady. The story concerns the rise to fame on tho screen of a

waitress in a Hollywood restaurant, and her marriage and subsequent divorce from a. handsome polo player (Neil Hamilton). Just what art directors and the public demand of a star, and lmw the combination can disturb even the happiest of romances is revealed as ihi) picture speeds on. “What Price Holywood.” a programme in iisell. is excel lenf-ly supported by interesting “short:,.”