DRAMA IN THE ORIENT

Evening Star, Issue 22327, 1 May 1936, Page 14

DRAMA IN THE ORIENT

•SHANGHAI’ FOR MAYFAIR Opening to-morrow at the Mayfair with ‘ Front Page Woman ’ is an intensely dramatic and gripping talc of the Orient. It is ‘ Shanghai,’ which stars Charles Boyer and Loretta Young iu a picture revealing the modern Orient, the land where races, traditions, and ambitions are flashing in eternal conflict. Scrupulous in its detail, alive with the authentic colour and sound of Shanghai, the picture tells the tale of Boyer, who struggles from the bottom to the top of Shanghai’s financial heap. Boyer's masterful performance is the best of his recent series of sensational appearances, and Loretta Young is well matched to him throughout. In the supporting cast of ‘ Shanghai ’ arc Warner Gland, Alison Skipworth, and Fred Keating. | Front Page Woman,’ the fast-mov-ing comedy-drama dealing with the intense rivalry between a man and a woman reporter on opposing newspapers, is the second feature. Bette Ha vis and George Brent are starred in the picture. Miss Davis i« east as Ellen Garfield, women’s page reporter of the staff of the ‘ Star,’ while Brent has the role of her rival on the ‘ Express.’ Their professional enmity begins in the Press room of a prison shortly before the execution of a Broadway butterfly for the murder of her paramour, carries through a series of dramatic and comic situations, and 1 ends in a truce, and, of course, love.