‘FORGOTTEN FACES’

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 13

‘FORGOTTEN FACES ’

REGENT'S STRONG DRAMA Drama of great emotional strength is provided in ‘ Forgotten Faces,’ the Paramount picture which commenced at the Regent Theatre yesterday. It is notable for the performances of its two principals, Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael, who appeared together so successfully in ‘ Till We Meet Again.’ The two films are quite different, however. In their earlier appearance they were lovers, and the film had a war-time setting, but im their latest production they are cast as a man and woman, who, although married, are bitter enemies, while the action takes place in the turbulent period which followed tho war and the present year. The story opens with Marshall as a devoted husband and father, deeply in love with his wife (Miss Michael) and worshipping his baby daughter. But his 'whole world is shattered when lie returns home one night to discover his wife in another man’s arms. _ In an emotional storm he kills the intruder and then, after arranging for the adoption of his daughter, he gives himself up. A court sentences him to prison. Seventeen years later, he learns that his daughter, now grown to lovely womanhood, is about to marry, and that her mother threatens to tell her fiance who she really is unless she is paid to be silent. Marshall mcceeds in securing a parole and establishes himself as butler in his daughter’s household. On the day the mother approaches for her money, she is confronted by her husband, and a fiery, dramatic climax puts the finishing touch to two explosive and tragic careers.

‘ Forgotten Faces ’ offers one of those nre, dramatic pieces of entertainment, the suspense of which is truly gapping. The acting is perfect, and _in addition to the two leads, special credit is duo Jane Rhodes, as the grorai-up daughter; Robert Cummings, is her fiance; and James Burke, is Marshall’s police-sergeant friend. This pitture offers Herbert Marshall one of tie best opportunities of his screen cireer, and in it, almost for the first jime, he has a role that does not rcqure him to be immaculately dressed throughout the whole picture. He starts off as a well-dressed gambler. He is seen next in prison clothing. His good conduct in prison helps him to win a larole, and lie completes the Eicture as a butler in his daughter’s ouse. ) The supjorting programme includes a newsreel and sportlight and ‘ Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbacl the Sailor,’ which is scieened in technicolour. Miss Margaret GConnor and Mr W. E. Priestley ahp give a stage presentation of the slow fox-trot and the ballroom rumba. ;