OPERA HOUSE
“San Francisco” always brings one memory to this reviewer a stormy autumn night on an American liuer iu the .Tasman • talkies in the lounge after dinner with’the rolling and groaning of the ship as a too-reiilistie accompaniment to the earthquake scenes in the film! . To many people these scenes -were the highlight ot a splendid picture; to others, the siugmg of Jeanette MacDonald and the cool and masterful acting of Clark Gable dominated the scene. At the Opera House this week for yet another season, "San Francisco'’ must now rank beside the unquenchable “Great Waltz” and "Naughty .Marietta” for the number of times it has been revived. But everv foot of this 10.000 ft. masterpiece is worth showing again. It captures with the utmost fidelity the atmosphere of the San Francisco of the bad old days—the saloons aud the rogues aud their ladies. Clark Gable is the proprietor of one of the cafes, while Jeanette MacDonald is the girl who can see some threads of gold iu the sordid drabness of Gable's makeup. That she was right is borne out as l he film progresses. But it is the toppling earthquake with its roar and dust and gaping chasms that will keep "San Francisco” alive in film-goers’ memories.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 178, 24 April 1942, Page 10
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210OPERA HOUSE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 178, 24 April 1942, Page 10
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