REGENT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 304, 19 September 1936, Page 4

REGENT THEATRE

“Fatal Lady” A beautiful and distinguished singing star is revealed in Mary Ellis (of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York), who is featured prominently in a powerful film, “Fatal Lady,” which thrilled audiences at the Regent Theatre. Miss Ellis appears as a young- and attractive singer, who, receiving her chance in opera, finds her vocal powers paralysed because that very afternoon a friend of hers in Texas has been murdered, and she has been sharply questioned by the police. She next figures in a provincial opera company in Brazil, and there a wealthy Brazilian, Über to Malta (Allan Mowbray) falls under her spell, and who also meets a strange death. The Binger is arrested, but acquitted. The scene changes to Paris, whither she has been followed by Phillip Roberts, a young planter who wishes to marry her. Phillip is found shot in a motor-car. Finally David, his brother, becomes infatuated with, the lovely and entirely well-meaning singer. At a supper, after a performance at the Paris Opera House, another shot is fired from the prompter's box. And this time the murderer is hunted down. Excellent work is done by Walter Pidgeon, Allan Mowbray, John Halliday and Guy Bates Post. The programme also includes news gazettes, a Grantland Rice Sportlight, the “Yankee Doodle Rhapsody,” and the comical Popeye the Sailor Man,