AMUSEMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 138, 13 June 1941, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

EMBASSY THEATRE Saga of the greatest upheaval in American lile, masterpiece of technique, and, withal, a simple and moving human story, ''Gone With the Wind" started a short season at the Embassy Theatre yesterday. Never before have the dramatic events of the Civil War been portrayed in such starkness and dreadful realism, redeemed by the iutile valour of the men of the warm and colourful Boutli. But it is enriched by the beauty and serenity of their lives and surroundings before the holocaust, enriched by their sturdiness under adversity.

Through the bright slieen of the story runs the golden thread that is Scarlett O'Hara. Perhaps never before in screen history has an actress so impacted herself on the minds and feelings of an audience, l'or it in undeniably her show. It is her wayward untamed spirit and wild breathtaking beauty that lift the story from the top flight to a niche of ito own. There are some who say that it is a -woman's picture; that the poignancy of some of the scenes that stand out as masterpieces carry a special female appeal. Be this as it may, all, men and women alike, who love colour, romance, joy. intrigue, specrealism—for ''Gone With the V\ ind' has all these— cannot but fail to a i 1 0 "1 perfect entertainment. The characters move gracefully through the story. Rhett Butler, somewhat of ap enigma to Scarlett, although he was one of the men sho married; an easy-going egotist with a colossal conceit, swaggering wealthy and cynical, but a man withal and the man whom Scarlett could have moulded to her rebellious will with a gesture, but failed. Ash lev Wilkes, breathing the courtly of the boutli, and Melanic Hamilton, the true beauty of whose character emerge® from the shadows of the opening chapters to become one of the ennobling personalities of the story. "Gone With the Wind" i» one o! those occasions that should not be inissctl.

CINEMA GUIDE

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