AT THE REGENT THEATRE TO-NIGHT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 May 1933, Page 5

AT THE REGENT THEATRE TO-NIGHT.

“UNASHAMED.” Mystery and the l modern age, an amazing dramatic twist wherein the heroine is faeocl with a choice between her own honour or the death of her brother, and, a. court-room* sequence that sets a new mark. for dramatic suspense, figure in V* Unashamed, ” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama which shows at the Regent-Theatre to-night only. Bayard Yeiller, author of “ Within the Law, ” “ The Trial of Mary Dugan,” and other noted stage plays of the mystery type, wove many new and modern angles into a strange, gripping story, and Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone> Jean ITersholt, John Miljan, Monroe Owsley, Robert Warwick, Gertrude Michael and others in an elaborate cast enact its characters under the) direction of Harry Beaumont. The story deals with a millionaire’s. daughter with too much freedom and an intense affection for her younger brother. She becomes infatuated with a fortune hunter. Her father refuses the marriage. 'To force consent, the lovers go to a hotel together and threaten a scandal. The brother shoots the lover and goes on trial. Then, in an ainazing dramatic climax, the girl sacrifices her reputation—to save him frofii the executioner. The dramatic highlights include her remarkable story before the jury, the gripping scene between the fortune hunter and his honest old father, the deadly quarrel and shooting in the millionaire’s mansion, the plea of the boy’s fiance to ithe sister who refuses to save him, and the final amazing dramatic climax. Spectacular settings include the first modernistic courtroom in a talking picture. Several hundred people take part in the action of this vivid sequence. “THE FACE AT. THE WINDOW.”

No melodrama ever earned a-repu-tation for thrills and mystery on the stage as did “lire Face at the Window.” It played with big success in all parts of the world; and was first produced nearly 30 years ago in London and; Australia. The early interpretation of the story was ly gruesome, and far-fetched to such an extent that it bordered on the ridiculous and almost became a comedy, it played for many lengthy seasons in many oif the principal cities of the worldi and attracted large audiences. “The Face at the Window” at the Regent Theatre to-night is a far different -story, now that it has been rewritten for the screen, EKO-Eadio Pictures have made a real modern thriller out of the old story, discarding all the improbabilities that would not be tolerated by audiences of to-day. The picture was made in EHO’s English studios. The French atmosphere called for by the story has been faithfully carried out. You are reminded that the evening performance commences at 7.45 p.m. On Monday and Tuesday at 2,15 p.m, and 7.30 p.m. each day the long awaited screenings of the great English musical success “Sunshine Susie” take place.