DICKENS'S NOVEL
• TALE OF TWO CITIES ' FOR EMPIRE
No finer entertainment could be desired than that provided in ‘ A 1 ale or Two Cities,’ which opens at the Empire on Friday. Bringing out the sense ot the dramatic which Dickens possessed above all other novelists, the films tells the story of a group of characters who lived their lives in the turbulant days of the French Revolution. Scenes of historical incidents, such as the taking of the supposedly impregnable Bastille, of death at the guillotine and other horrors, are presented with a realism which has rarely been equalled on the screen. As the idle and dissolute Sydney Carton, Ronald Colman has been perfectly cast, ns air of boredom with the world and his fellows being typical of the Carton of the book. Elizabeth Allan makes a charming Lucie Manette and Edna May Oliver’s study of the admirable Miss Pross is outstanding. Blanche Yurka, Basil Rathbone, and Donald Woods’ also give splendid performances.
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Evening Star, Issue 22336, 12 May 1936, Page 12
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162DICKENS'S NOVEL Evening Star, Issue 22336, 12 May 1936, Page 12
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