A Dominion Premiere Screening in City

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 219, 19 September 1934, Page 5

A Dominion Premiere Screening in City

“SOUR GRAPES” IS PICTURISED AS “LET’S TRY AGAIN.’ 5 (State, Screening Saturday.) The danger age to love! That, in a nutshell, describes the theme of “Let’s Try Again,” or “Sour Grapes,” KKO-Radio’s solution of the problem of how to remain happy throughout married life. It is having its New Zealand premiere at Palmerston North, and it brings together again Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook, stars of “Cavalcade,” tho film that was accorded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science award as the outstanding production of last season. The story is of a surgeon and his wife who have reached that stage in their married life which might be labelled “tho danger age to love. 5 ’ It is a crisis that nearly all marriages reach when the first thrill of love vanishes and couples havo not as yet adjusted themselves to a calmer and more lasting regard. In “Let's Try Again,” both man and wife turn to other loves in an effort to recapture the ecstasy that they ha\c lost. They separate and plan a divorce, only to discover that their happiness is tied up in each other and that their love is more real, if less burningly passionate, than before. The dramatic values aro , skilfully built toward the climax, and a logical solution of a vital situation is set forth.

Diana Wynyard was never more alluringly lovely than in the role of the dissatisfied wife. She makes her audionce understand and sympathise with her despair at the loss of romance. Clive Brook is well cast as the obtuse husband who does not realiso that a man may kill love by forgetting his wedding anniversary or neglecting those little attentions that mean so much to a woman.

Helen Vinson is delightful in the role of “the other woman,” and Theodore Newton gets the most out of his unsympathetic part, that of the man to whom the wife turns in her effort to capture romance. Beautiful Irene Hcrvcy plays the doctor’s niece, whose lover is stolen from her by the doctor’s wife. Others in the cast aro Henry Kolker, Theodore Newton, Arthur Hoyt and William Straus. Worthington Miner wrote the scenario and directed tho picture. “Let’s Try Again” is fine entertainment.

Frank Buck, ike man who made ‘‘Wil'd Cargo” possible, states that he has little competition in liis strange but always harrowing profession. <s><•><•><?> Reginald Denny has been assigned a role in "Arabella,” film version of Olden Nash's sophisticated, play hit, ‘‘And Let Who Will Be Clever." <*> <*><*> <s> Leslie Howard has been selected to play the role of “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” fiction’3 favourite character, created by Baroness Orczy.