‘SIX HOURS TO LIVE’

Evening Star, Issue 21320, 26 January 1933, Page 4

‘SIX HOURS TO LIVE’

WARNER BAXTER FILM FOR REGENT Warner Baxter, popular screen star, is said to have the most powerful character role of his career in his latest Fox picture, ‘ Six Hours To Live,’ which opens to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Adapted from the original story, ‘ Auf Wiedersehen,’ by Gordon Morris and Morton Barteaux, this picture presents Baxter in the role of an international diplomat, standing firmly in the face of ruin and death, in defence of his country at a disarmament conference. To the other nations gathered at Geneva, partial disarmament means merely a reduction in taxes for their burdened countrymen, but to Baxter’s tiny republic it means placing it at the mercy of powerful and unscrupulous neighbouring States which covert its valuable resources. How he successfully combats a conspiracy to wreck his country, although his mind is distracted by a romantic interlude with a beautiful girl, forms the central theme of the film. ‘ Six Hours To Live,’ directed hy William Dieterle, marks the screen debut of Miriam Jordan, beautiful young English girl recently recruited from the Broadway stage. She is said to be generously endowed with- that illusive charm which distinguishes the more successful stars, and studio executives are confident that this unusual vehicle will place her within the realm of stardom. John Boles has a featured role, and figures very prominently in the denouement of the story. George Marion, sen., well remembered for numerous unusual character roles, including his famous “ Chris ” in ‘Anna Christie,’ is prominently cast as Otto Bauer, an eccentric scientist. Halliwell Hobbes is seen and heard as Miss Jordan’s father, Edwin Maxwell as a police commissioner, John Davidson as Baxter’s secretary, and Dewey Robinson as Marion’s giant assistant.