“TELL ME TO-NIGHT”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12139, 29 December 1933, Page 7

“TELL ME TO-NIGHT”

THE RECENT—MONDAY. BOX PLANS NOW OPEN. Commencing on Monday and continuing right through the week, the Regent will present one of the really outstanding pictures of the year, “Tell Me To-night.” It is one of “'he few films'that can honestly lay claim to world-wide fame, for not only Ims it been acclaimed as one of the greatest pictures of all thne in England, hut’it-has broken records in Australia, a)ud .it ran .for 'three months in Los Angelos, the heart of the American film industry. “The Dominion,!” Wellington, says:

“‘Toll Me To-night’ is one of the most, enchanting" productions that ■have ever been “screened 1 . The cast is one; of the' finest ever assembled for any one picture,''the photography •is superb, and the scenery far and (away ahead of any that ,has. been seen outside of an out-and-out scenic gem. The story is pleasing, the romance all. that, can bo desired and the humor -iof the - i type that keeps one in ripples of laughter oven after the show has finished. As for .the music, it ranges-from the most lilting of modern melodies to the most tuneful excerpts from grand opera." • The story deals with the adventures of a noted tenor who,, in an. endeavour to escape- from the merciless supervision of liis super-efficient publicity agent,, runs away to a Swiss town, gets nt man (who;turns out to be an international crook) to impersonate him, falls in love : , arid lands himself in for all sorts of trouble; which," of course, is finally straightened out.',' Jan TCiopura, the welhknown Continental tenor,, is brilliant in the leading role. : Ho is a ; handsome young man and a good actor, and possesses a most remarkable singing voice. Mis 'songk'.iii ( .tiie show include the popular “Toll Me- To-night-/’ and'excerpts from. “Rigolettod? • “La Traviata/’ ‘La 'Boheme. ’ The, comedy elomentvis iu-the hands of* Edmund Gwen n, Bonnie Hale, and Athene Seylcr, whose work; deserves .' the highest praiso, especially -.the >djiot ...between. Halo and Miss Scyler. Madge Schneider provides. most of the romance. The settings are mostly , in the picturesque