OPERA HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 157, 29 March 1941, Page 15

OPERA HOUSE

Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor and Conrad Veidt head the cast of ‘Escape, which has been transferred to the. Opera House. The principal background is Nazi Germany in 1936. , . Anxious about his mother s lon ß absence from her adopted country, America, Mark Preyser (Taylor). visits the Reich to trv to find information about nei. After many rebuffs and heartbreaks, he eventually traces her to a concentration camp in the Bavarian Alps, and is told how he can take her out of Germany alive bv a Dr. Ritter, a young German whose philosophy is not quite in keeping with the Nazi ideology. , A friend of 10 years’ standing of General Kurt von Kolb (Veidt), a soldiei of culture and understanding, yet who possesses a cruel streak which makes him sadistic on occasions, Countess von Ireck (Norma Shearer) falls in love with Mark. Mark reciprocates, for the countess is an American, widow of a German, and she plans to fly over the border with him and his mother. But such does not happen, for at the last moment the countess decides to remaiu, feeling that a smaller party will have more chance of success. When the others are on their way to the aerodrome and safety, the general learns of the escape, and endeavours to pass on the information to the right quarters. Suddenly he becomes ill. and after ft struggle between her new-found love and her old —the countess has a very real affection for the general—'the countess promises him that so long as he lives die will not leave him.