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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 6

Glorious song numbers, «ung as only; Richard Tauber can sing them; comedy, crisp, wise-cracking comedy put over as only Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durant.e can put it over; an enchanting love story set to beautiful melodies by Oscar Strauss, and a director whose genius is renowned on both, sides of the Atlantic—"Land Without Music" has all these ingredients which go to the making of perfect entertainment, arid film-goers will have an opportunity of seeing this, picture tomorrow, when, it will open .at the- Majestic- Theatre. The story is set,in the middle of the nineteenth century in the Italian Duchy of Lucco, a music-loving country -whose Princess Regent: (Diana Napier) is at her wits' end to satisfy the demands of: the Austrian Ambassador who has come to collect a national debt. As ;a | last resource she banishes music from the land until the debt is paid. It "is at this juncture that Mario Carlini, Lucco's world-famed tenor, arrives on the scene. He. defies her ban, and she is furious, but an accidental meeting with the golden-voiced tenor proves him to be charming, and the Princess finds herself falling in love with tfie man who has presumed to flout fttjr authority. Carlini incites the people to revolt, which they do, substituting fiddles and flutes for firearms, but ultimately ■a. plan is_ evolved -by l which everyone, including the' Princess, ,'ds made happy, ever after. June Clyde and Derrick .de Marney: head: a strong supporting cast. ■ :■-■ ■■•' ■':