"EBB TIDE."

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 21

"EBB TIDE."

"The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise,-the first South Sea Island, are i memories apart and touch a virginity o£ sense," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. ''On July 28, 1888, the moon ,was''an hour down by four in the morning. In the east a radiating centre of brightness told of the day and beneath, on the skyline, the morning bank was already building, black as ink.1 Although-the dawn was thus preparing, the sun was not up till" six , and it was half-past five before we , could distinguish our expected islands from the clouds on the horizon.*. The lahd' heaved up in peaks and -rising vales; it fell in cliffs and buttresses; its i colour ran -throughv fifty modulations in a scale of pearl, rose and olive > and it was' crowned above by opales- • cent' clouds. The suffusion of vague hues deceived the eye and the shadows of clouds were confounded with the articulations .oi the mountain. The isle\and its unsubstantial canopy rose arid .shimmered before us like a single mass." In those, words, Robert Louis Stevenson attempted to 'convey the beaGty of his first glimpse of the South Seas Islands. On such a basis did lhe, write "Ebb "Tide," which has now* been produced for the screen by Paramount,, who adds to the fascinati6ntof the story.-the beauty of'technicolqur. The leading role of "Ebb T^de" has been entrusted to Oscar Homolka, ,a brilliant Viennese character actor. With him' Paramount cast Ray Milland, Frances Farmer, and Barry Fitzgerald. -