REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12905, 4 July 1936, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

RONALD COLAIAN IN “A TALE OR TWO CITIES.”

Courage, gallantry and .romance are to be found in Charles Dickens’s story. “A Tie of Two Cities.” the screen version ot : which opened at the Regent Theatre yesterday. The story is set in Paris and London, the “two ■ities,” in the days of the French Revolution and there is a considerable amount of interesting history m the film. Scenes such as the taking of fellc Bastile. of the slaughter at the guillotine, and of the movie trials which were carried out every day are present. The story of “A Talc, of Two Cities’ is known to numerous readers. It tells of the joys and sorrows. the adventures -and the trials of a little group of people, English and French, who are caught .in the maelstrom of the French Revolution of 1789. Specifically, it tells of the strange love of Carton and Lucie -Man ■cite—- a love that was doomed to fru.s (.ration. With the star is l a cast oi 112 stars and featured players. As Sydney Carton, the drink-sodden young lawyer, who sacrifices his life on the, guillotine ‘-for Jove oik, Lueio Maunetle. Ronald Column gives a masterly performance-. As Lucie Man clti, Elizabeth Allan is splendidly cast. Others of note in the cast art 11. I>. Warner, Edna May Olliver, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Blanch Yurka, Henry 11. Wall all, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, Donald Woods, and Clauds Gillingwater.