AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 6 September 1949, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

Regent.—Co-starred with Melvy-.i the IJrili.iit suit- l’hyilirt Calvert will certainly add even mure to her statute in this coir’try with her performance in "My Own True hove" In it site is seen as a woman of tinworld loved by two men- • father and son, the latter a neurotic vi-tirn of the war. Her problem is to heap the love of the older man, yet not destroy the father-eon icla'.ionship. Majestic. When Hade wrote his i pern. "The Hnhi niinn (ii.-l" ca r a leutury a.to he little dreamed that is would one day he til • Pasts ,-f a o.uaedy mo*.ton j.e. ."Mich it htts li.-'-ome iti the* hands of I. a. j- ■. , and Manly, plenipotentiaries ,-f lau-htrr, who star in tne film itoiv MUTenind at the Ma.ie-'.ie Then’.re. The dramatic, aed -ntr.ttimes mo-bid. story of the oriyinal work bn* been neatly drawn and quartered to 'rive the pair of i-opi-al'ans ttri ndmiranie vehicle for their fooleries. Much of tile music has been retain-:J. Emu's.—-After the situs I site.-ess cf "Ait ido.'.l Husband,” so recently revived on the screen, producers have eome to the b, lief that tile" arc still audiences for the brilliant Inntrump? of Oscar Wilde, and (he smooth, cynical, subtle character;* he created so blithely over half a century a -so. "Lady Windermere's Fan,” now at the Kina's Theatre, convinces one of this, for this piece of sophi-tit-ation dealing with London society life wilh sueli pretty play about the wandorimrs of My Lady's fan—is class entertainment.