BRILLIANT ACTING
THREE FAMOUS STARS FOR REGENT ‘The Dark Angel,’ which opens at the Regent on Friday, is a story typically English in- atmosphere and setting. Directed by Sidney Franklin, maker of such outstanding pictures as ‘ The Barrets of Wimpolo Street ’ and ‘ Smiling Through,’ it is not unlike the last-named in its lovely English rural settings, while parts of Fredric March’s role are also reminiscent of the on© ho played with such notable success in ‘ Smiling Through.’ He and Herbert Marshall arc cousins, brought up from Childhood with .Meric Oberon, and both in love with her. She chooses March. The cousins go to war and only Marshall returns. March is believed killed, hut he has only been blinded in an explosion and captured by the enemy. After the war be comes back to England, but fearing to be pitied for bis blindness and to make life a burden to the girl be loves, he hides his identity and becomes eventually a successful writer of children’s stories. How he and the girl finally meet again, and for ever, brings the story to its superbly handled climax.
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Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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185BRILLIANT ACTING Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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