WARTIME DRAMA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 April 1937, Page 4

WARTIME DRAMA.

“THE ROAD TO GLORY.” FINE FILM ACHIEVEMENT. A dramatic star-shell is promised in ‘•'The Road to Glory,” the worldfamed production opening at the Regent Theatre to-day. Featuring the .-.ear’s most impressive cast, the film is balled as the strangest, strongest drama of love ever brought to the screen. Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore are starred. The picture’s background depicts the battle torn France, on which is enacted a human love drama amidst the horrors of war. Baxter is seen as the hardbitten commander, whose only relief fiom the din of war is found in the arms of Monique, a petite French jinr.se. Baxter’s chief aide, Fredric March, rescues Monique from an air raid, and debonairly commences to make Jove to her. Lionel Barrymore, Baxter’s father, comes to the front in a group of replacements. Baxter is astonished to find his father, for the old man is well over the age limit. Despite Barrymore’s pleading, Baxter orders him evacuated for he well knows that if one man falters or errs in his duty, the entire company may be wiped out. Barrymore is not so easily discouraged, and bribes Gregory Rat off to destroy the order when it comes through. When the company moves towards the front, Barrymore is in the ranks. From this stirring foundation, the picture moves swiftly through a succession of episodes. each of which finds the dramatic intensity mounting ever higher. The conclusion, shiny with heroism and tears, is a fitting climax to an outstanding film. Yon don’t ‘“see - ’ ‘‘the Road to Glory”—you live it. All the strangeness of this drama, the might of its emotion, the fire of its stars, gets you, deej) down inside. In addition, the second episode In the serial, ‘‘The Rider,” will be shown at the matinee at 2 p.m. and prior to the evening session, at 7.40 p.m.