"MADAME BUTTERFLY."
ON THE REGENT'S SCREEN.
Black-eyed Sylvia ; Sidney, with eyebrows slanted and hair lacquered, plays the title-role in "Madame Butterfly," a modernised screen version of one.of the most treasured romances, which somes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel and Helen Jerome Eddy play the principal supporting roles. The story centres around Miss Sidney, cast as a high-born Japanese girl, and Grant, lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, stationed in Japan, who fall in love. Ultimately, he is sent back to the United States. He leaves, promising to return "when the robins nest again.- In his heart, he is not so sure that he will. But the girl takes him at his word._ He does return, years later, but under entirely different circumstances — circumstances which bring the picture to a dramatic, heart-stirring climax. The Regent is also presenting a prologue featuring Miss Julie Russell, protegee of the late Dame Nellie Melba and dramatic eoprano to theXlmperial Grand Opera Company in Australia, -,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 8
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