ROMANTIC DRAMA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22774, 7 July 1937, Page 16

ROMANTIC DRAMA

"THE WOMAN I LOVE"

A romantic drama involving two French flying comrades and a beautiful girl during the World War, " The Woman I Love," which is to have its first screenings at the Civic Theatre on I* riday, is very different in many ways from the aviation pictures of the past. For perhaps the first time on the screen, the personal side of wartime fliers' lives has been emphasised instead of their spectacular feats in the air. Although the film is not devoid of exciting aerial scenes, its chief interest lies in its romantic story. One gif the finest actors on the screen, Paul Muni, has the leading role, and lie gives a j performance hardly surpassed by his I portrayal of the part of Louis Pasteur, which earned him the Academy ol Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award last year. He is supported bv Miriam Hopkins, who has the role of' the wife of an unpopular pilot in the French dying corps. Louis Hayward, one of the screen's most promising young actors, plays the part of an observer. A famous European director, Anatolo Litvak, was responsible for the picture, which i.based on a best—selling French novel about the Great War, and it was produced in the 1V.K.0. Radio studios. In conjunction with this film, a special programme of coloured cartoons is to be presented at the afternoon sessions for the entertainment of children during the ensuing school holidays.