ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 8, 7 December 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAYFAIR THEATRE. “LOVE AIE FOR EVER.” Grace Aloore, the beautiful 'star of ‘One Night of Love,” is now presented in “Lovo Ale For Ever,” a dramatic musical screening at the Mayfair' Theatre to-mor-row. Grace Aloore is the outstanding personality on the screen to-day, lovely to look at. endowed with a heavenly voice, and a dramatic talent that enhances her characterisation with colour and emotional depth. Millions thrilled to this glamorous star in her initial film, “One Night of Lovo.” People came time and again completely bewitched, by the performance of Grace Moore. Now in “Love Ale For Ever” sho surpasses that triumph: never has a voice as thrilling ns Grace Moore’s been heard on the screen; never before has such divine music, sung as superbly, been incorporated in motion pictures; never before was it possible to toll a modern moving credible ' story with grand music until the auspicious cinema debut of Grace Moore introduced to the world her versatility and singing artistry. The scope and depth of the story mako of “Lovo Ale For Ever” one of the. most exciting and stirring dramas of all time. Written by Victor Schertzinger, director, writer and composer, the theme brilliantly and intelligently introduces tho vitally important music as sung by the star, Grace Afooro. Because Mr Schertzinger thoroughly understands the mood of music, music is used in “Love Ale For Ever” to ! heighten the drama, suspense and romance J of the picture. Adaoted to the screen, bv Jo Svverling and Sidney Buclinian, two of I the finest motion picture writers in Hollywood, the story emerges as a monumental work of sparkling dialogue and sheer, breath-taking drama. Story, music and mood have been blended and draped for j the superbly gifted Grace Aloore. Her • role as a tone-time heiress who becomes the musical protege of a big-shot gambler 1 is a dynamic, emotional, courageous char- I neterisation. Each role of. “Love Ale For j Ever” has been perfectly written, making | such beautiful music as “Jingle Bells,' “Funiculi Funicula,” “II Bacio,” “The Bells of St. Alary’s,” “Rings on Aly Fingers and Bells on Aly Toes,” selections from “La Bobome” and “Rigoletto,” and several new Victor , Schertzinger tunes. “Love Ale For Ever” is perfect co-ordina-tion of genuine drama and soul-stirring music—a classic of film fare. ■ j “FORGOTTEN MEN” |

Every foot of “Forgotten Alcn,” the other attraction to-morrow night, is authentic —depicting men caught up in the terrible, relentless, clutches of war, the archenemy of civilisation. REGENT THEATRE. “ANOTHER DAWN.” Going far afield for a picturesque setting for a movie, Warner Bros, this time chose Iraq (which used to he Arabia) as a locale. They placed a British garrison there, -had its members surrounded by wild natives, and offered the problem of how tile soldiers and their officers and wives were to he saved —if saved they might be. “Another Dawn” is the name of the picture which screens to-night at the Regent. Add lo that situation the fact that Kay Francis is the lady most' chiefly concerned —and that the two men who love her are Errol Flynn and lan Hunter —and both. have a chance to save her and the garrison—and you have the ingredients of real drama. It all makes a very thrilling movie, and preview experts have put it up to the top of the list among tho action and romance pictures of the year. Errol Flynn is said to surpass lilts performance in that history-making movie, “The Charge

lof Uic Light Brigade.” And -it is said, 100, that Hunter (once, the idol of all the matinee girls in London) has the best opportunity that has come to him since the Warners imported him to play the Duke of Athene in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” There are mountains and deserts and a lot of fighting and some extremely daring aeroplane flying in “Another Dawn.” the producers declare. Also a'- stirring climax when, the time comes for one Qr.the other of -Miss Francis’s adorers to save the garrison. The man who directed “The Story of Louis Pasteur” and “The White Angel”—William Dioterie —guided I the making of “Another Dawn.” Besides I the three stars, the cast includes such ex- ! cedent players as Frieda Inescort, Herbert | Mundin, Billy Bevan, Clyde Cook, Mary i Forbes and G„ P. Huntley, jurir.'