LAY WORRY ASIDE AT THE CINEMA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 5

LAY WORRY ASIDE AT THE CINEMA.

“A FAREWELL TO ARMS.” Two complete programmes at each session will be screened at the Regent Theatre to-night. Also a programme will be screened on ChriStmas night, including “A Farewell to Arms,” featuring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou. It tells the story of a man and woman who loved greatly against the background of war. Gary Cooper has the role of Frederic Henry an American lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who had been) a typical soldier, rough, devoted to hard liquor and to the Villa Rossa’s of every town, until the day he met Catherine Barkley, the brave and beautiful nurse, whose role is played by Helen Hayes. The two meet through Rinaldi (Menjou) Italian army surgeon, who has annexed Frederic as his “best friend and war brother,” fall in love and play out their stolen moments of the living with death ever waiting to catch up with them. It is a beautiful and stirring picture among the soul-tossed and war-shattered nurses and doctors along the front. It moves you so deeply that it is often difficult to see the screen, for the haze which mists your tearfilled eyes. It is a delicate, poignant romance set against the grim background of the world war. Their- love was as sweet and enduring as time itself, a thing of (beauty, snatched from the crucible of war. Don’t miss this most powerful love,story of recent years. “TWO AIGAMiST THE WORLD.” In “Two Against the World” Constance Bennett has 22 complete changes in gowns, including all accessories such as purses, parasols, shoes, stockings and lingerie. The gowns are the latest creations of the modistes’ art from Paris and New York and the smart Hollywood shops. There are evening gowns, street and sports wear, in fact everything that a wealthy society girl, which character she represents, would wear. In the film the heroine is dragged through' a sensational criminal court trial in which she confesses, although innocent, to a liaison \Vith a man whom her brother has murdered. And this is done in’the presence of the man she loves, who is compelled by his legal position to prosecute her brother. A gay, care-free society gitly, she is hurled pell mell into the maelstrom of the murder case.,She tears her own honour to sheds in order to save her brother from execution and her cowardly sister from a domestic scandal into which her weakness has precipitated her. Miss Bennett stresses the emotional sequences with a strength that is so unusual in one scarcely past her teens, that she undoubtedly must hae inherited it from her noted father. She is supported by an excellent east including Neil Hamilton and Helen Vinson. “Touchdown Mickey,” the latest Mickey Mouse cartoon will also be screened.