"RETURN TO YESTERDAY."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 18

"RETURN TO YESTERDAY."

Clive Brook, the idol of thousands of fans, will be appearing in another English film soon to be released in New Zealand by British Empire Films. The film is the screen version of Robert (Louie XVI) Morley's outstanding play "Goodness How Sad." Its title being unsuitable for film audiences, it will be released here as "Return to-Yester-day." Brook's leading lady will be the charming English star, Anna Lee, W;ho will be remembered in "The Four Just Men," and the supporting cast includes Garry Marsh, David Tree, and Dame May Whitty. The story tells of the return to England of an actor who achieves international fame in Hollywood. At forty and at the height, of his fame, he is mobbed by thousands of fans, but seeing his own country again fills' him with a desire to recapture the old days when he was a struggling touring actor. He indulges his whim and stays at a little seaside town in the same old theatrical digs, where he meets and falls in love with an enthusiastic young girl, a member of the local repertory company. This company he saves from financial disaster by appearing "in person" in a play with them, but he leaves them— and the girl—when he realises that you can conjure up the past in your thoughts, but cannot recapture it in your life. His old landlady tells him his past was not worth recapturing. "You've remembered the cream cakes," she says philosophically, "but forgotten the stomach aches!"