"THE RAINS CAME."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 8

"THE RAINS CAME."

ATTRACTION AT PLAZA.

Louie BromfieKl'n lwst-«?ninc novel i« turned into celluloid action in "The Kjmu* Hlwa Theetre on Friday. The BromßHd etor>- w about a woman «» anprincipicd now r«.p«tably married, who «-t* out to captivate a handsome youne Indian and w making a poor job of it when an earthquake followed by a cloudburst precipitates a condition *o calamitous that Bbe ha» to go into hospital «kth, r bann » ki »«« >n the earthquake, and *he u= honestly in love with the young man. The development of the plot lead* to extraordinarily dramatic Mtuations and worlu out unexpectedly inw in a film showing human emotions at their peak, and the catastrophic forc« of Nature at their wonrt. There are enough thrilling »pectacl<w to ntivfy the n,oet ,*. rdcnt dwciple of excite ient and m addition, there i» a ca*t that interpret, the STeat novel with feeling and delicacy Tyrone Power play* one of the ~* * l n which he h »« - v «t appeared, •nd Myrn. Loy. Georpe Brent and Brcnd« Joyce mpport him ably. Power hae one o» hie greatest alignments a « a native of India who ha* learned medicine and oi!ture vith a view towards helping the population of a province he will one <lav rule, but Georse Brent, borrowed from Warnen. lor the. film, w no lew pronnnent a« therum-loviiiß Britwber who i, hi* triend. The whole picture *tre*<e* the bmldins oi character under prewnre of rnXr - ,f etCh t ,h ° inter-play of reality and hollow «oph>«tication. X o more powerful picture ha* been *hown here •ad there ie nothing of tec nordid m-it.''