“DINNER AT EIGHT.”
" The Man Who Played God ” will be* presented finally to-morrow night at the Grand Theatre. Never before—not even in “ Grand Hotel ” —has such a galaxy of talent been presented in any one film as is the case in the M.G.M. production, “ Dinner at Eight,” which will start a return season at the Grand Theatre on Saturday. Every character is a star, and even the smallest part is handled with the maximum of ability. The plot tells of a brief period in the lives of a group of various people drawn together at a dinner party. Heading the galaxy of stars is the one and only Marie Dressier, who excels in the role of a somewhat gushing actress. John Barrymore appears as the broken-down screen actor, and his brother Lionel has a very different type of role as Oliver Jordan, the head of a big shipping concern facing bankruptcy. Wallace Beery is cast as Dan Packard, a bluff and unscrupulous mining magnate, and Jean Harlow plays his ill-mannered but beautiful cabaret-girl wife. Box plans at the D.I.C.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 3
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