OUTSTANDING FILM.
“ The Man Who Played God ” will be presented finally to-night at the Grand Theatre. Dinner at Eight,” the most remarkable film achievement yet attempted in Hollywood, will begin a return season at the Grand Theatre to-morrow. The cast includes Marie Dressier, John Barrymore. Wallace Beery. Jean Harlow. Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke, Madge Evans. Jean Ilersholt. Karen Morley, Louise Glosser Hale, Phillips Holmes and May Robson, together with eleven supporting players. Marie Dressier is seen as a faded musical-comedy star bereft of beauty but not of wit, and John Barrymore is a motion picture actor whose loss of popularity impels him to a tragfc end. Wallace Beery is a selfmade millionaire, ruthless in destroying his weaker business rivals and trying in vain to retain the affection of his fikle wife, played by Jean Ilarlow. Lionel Barrymore is the aristocratic •hipbuilder who is almost tricked into bankruptcy by the unscrupulous Beery. Box plans at the D.I.C.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 20 July 1934, Page 3
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