NEW PARAMOUNT THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 124, 19 February 1938, Page 13

NEW PARAMOUNT THEATRE

“Smilin’ Through”

Norma Shearer’s triumphant film version of the famous stage classic, “Smilin’ Through,” in which she is. supported by Fredric March and Leslie Howard, is one of those rare productions which have lingered in the hearts of movie-goers the world .over. The

film has been transferred to the New Paramount Theatre. It is in the poignant story of “Smilin’ Through” that Miss Shearer first turned her back on her screen past, for in this production she has a role far removed from those which took her along the bypaths leading away

from convention. Miss Shearer's role in “Smilin’ Through” is frankly tinged with sentimental romance. She sheds the “woman of the world” character for the first time since the peach blossom fragrance of “The Student Prince” in the old days of silent films. In “Smilin’ Through” she portrays two different' girls whose romantic experience affect the life of one man at an interval of fifty years.

STATE THEATRE, PETONE

Combining the intrigue of “Richelieu,” the romance of “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” and the adventure of “The Three Musketeers,” “Under the Red Robe,” which begins to-day at the State Theatre, Petone, tells a tale of intrigue, that threatens a throne,/with Conrad FVeidt, one of the greatest actors Europe has ever produced, as the dashing, audacious adventurer, Gil de Berault. The radiant Annabella plays opposite Veidt, .