RIVOLI THEATRE, NEWTOWN.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 146, 22 June 1934, Page 4

RIVOLI THEATRE, NEWTOWN.

,GRAA TD OPEinjJ-GI-1 TONIGHT.

• : U is not easy to find the-superlatives needed to revjew properly '.Toltaire," the new George Arhss picture,' produced by and to be presented at the RivoU .Theatre, Newtown, for its openinc night. It is undoubtedly the greatest con?1 tribution to the screen Mr. Arliss has ever made, riot excepting "Disraeli," which it ■SJ?, st- T sem^c?', bi: "The Millionaire" or. The Workmg Man." Here is the most skilful performance this greatest of livmir actors has yet contributed to either staee or screen Here.is the finest cast ever assembled for .an1 Arliss production. Hei-e in. short, « an amazing drama, spectacularly produced, magnificently staged, and clramaticaUy sound. A single incident in the long and singularly exciting career of the great French poet-philosopher is used as a dramatic background for this remarkable film In this Mr. Arliss has followed ™. method he found so successful in . Disraeh'. About this .one- incident has beeri.drawn, all the gorgeous panoply and extravagance of the Court of Louis XV all tho exciting-intrigue which centred in the boudoir of Madame Pompadour The incident used by the dramatists and so! cotourfiilly portrayed by Arliss is an adaptation of the famous Galas case in which Voltaire interested himself for eight lonz years, braving threats of imprisonment' and death in his efforts to clear a man's name and. to save his estates from intriguing advisers to the king. "Voltaire's well-known friendship, and influence with Madame Pompadour, a roleiplayed charmingly by the ever more beautiful Doris Kenyon, plays a vital part in the story. The excellence, of the supporting cast matches the magnificence of- the "production values. Margaret Lindsay playa the role of Nanette- Calas, one of the innocent causes of the eventual revolution. Theodore Newton, another newcomer who.won. his spurs in "The Working Man,", plays the part of Nanette's lover.-■•• Davicl Torrance, Alan Mowbray, Doris Lloyd, Helena Phillips, and Murray Kjnnell, more than competent, all of them, are others iii the cast. "Going Wild," with Joe E. Brown, will be an added attraction. • ■'. ,: