GEORGE ARLISS AT REGENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 3

GEORGE ARLISS AT REGENT.

IN "ALEXANDER HAMILTON."

It is good to hear of a new George Arliss picture, for he is a star whose' popularity is not dependent upon an ''Arliss vogue" so much as upon his fine standard of acting. This time it is "Alexander Hamilton," which commences at the Regent Theatre to-morrow, in which the great actor is cast opposite Doris Kenyon. The picture is the tale of a great man's life in stirring days, when the Thirteen States were fighting an oppressive Imperial Government for their very existence. Alexander Hamilton, born in the West Indies, was a military commander at 18, and in due course became second-in-command to Washington himself. He was Secretary for the Treasury at the peak of his career, in which post he aided in the founding of the National Bank of America. He was present at many of the fiercest battles of the War of Independence, but Fate decreed that he should die as the result of a wound received in a duel with his political enemy, Aaron Burr, at that time vice-president. George Arliss was starred in the record-breaking "Disraeli," in which he toured for five years in the stage play. Following this and a season with short plays, Arliss made his first silent pictures, "The Devil," "The Ruling Passion," and "Disraeli."