TUDOR THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 106, 28 January 1939, Page 13

TUDOR THEATRE

“Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs” Entertainment of a kind rarely seen on the screen is provided in Walt Dis-lull-length production, “Snow \v nite and the Seven Dwarfs,” now transferred and showing at the Tudor J-ueatre. To cinema-goers familiar with the cartoonists former characters,, the present full-length film will tome as something of a surprise, for it has all the elements of great entertainment—ropathos, suspense and bmnour. Tlimed throughout in technicolour, “Snow White’ is a beautiful work of art, gaudy colours being entirely eliminated in favour of subdued halftones. Most people are familiar with Grimm’s fairy talc and they will find that it has been faithfully brought to the screen With very few alterations. It a picture which has a universal appeal, and which will be remembered as one of the screen’s greatest achievements.

How Snow White’s beautiful but vain and wicked Queen consults her magic mirror to find who is the faireet in the land is shown. When the-mirror replies, ‘‘Snow White,” the Queen retreats to her secret dungeons at. the bottom of the castle through which a mysterious river flows. Here, in scenes which could never be done with the limitations of regular motion-picture technique, she brews magic potions and turns herself into :in old witch, to an accompaniment, of lightning and crashing thunder. She disguises herself thus, so that she may

go to Snow White, living in the cottage of the seven dwarfs, and, posing as all old pedlar woman, induce her to bite into a poisoned apple. The ultimate in excitement and suspense comes when the dwarfs, discovering the Queen at their cottage, chase her through, a blinding thunder and rain c-torm, tip into mountain fastnesses where, just as she is about to roll a boulder down on them, a bolt ot lightning send« her toppling over a cliff.