MARLENE DIETRICH

Evening Star, Issue 21662, 6 March 1934, Page 9

MARLENE DIETRICH

GREAT GERMAN STAR FOR REGENT Marlene Dietrich, who is probably the most attractive actress in films, has one of her finest roles in ‘ The Song of Songs,’ which will start on Friday at the Regent Theatre. Her part allows full scope for her great acting ability, and she portrays widely differing moods with her usual sincerity. The story opens in Hungary, and Marlene Dietrich appears as a simple country girl about to leave for Berlin, where she stays with her domineering aunt. She meets a young sculptor, who makes a statue of her, and around this statue the story revolves. Marlene Dietrich gives an extremely capable characterisation.. First as the simple, timid country .'girl, then- as the passionate artists’ model, later as the cold, bored wife of the baron, and finally as the artificial woman of the cabarets, she always rises to the heights of supreme artistry. She sings _ two charming little songs, one of which is in German"; her native tongue. Brian Aherne, a young English actor of note, makes his first appearance in an American film as the impatient, matter-of-fact young sculptor, and he acquits himself . well. Another brilliant English actor, Lionel Atwill, gives a splendid portrayal as a brutal German aristocrat, who sets out to mould the siniple country girl into an accomplished society woman.