Woman Crucified On Vicious Publicity Cross

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 64, 17 March 1937, Page 11

Woman Crucified On Vicious Publicity Cross

"TWO AGAINST THE WORLD” VIVID RADIO DRAMA (Kosy: Screening Saturday.) "Two Against the World,” first National’s dynamic drama of the radio world, lifts the curtain to the secrets behind the scenes in a great broadcasting network. It depicts the crucifixion of a woman on the cross of vicious publicity by a heartless syndicate which rakes up her buried past to regale the world with a sensation in order to reap a rich profit. Not content with bringing this woman’s rebuilt world crashing down on her in ruin, this same syndicate atteinps to brand with shame an innocent daughter, wrecking her happiness and her very life. Humphrey Bogart, stage and screen star, who made such a hit as ••the killer” in "The Petrified For-, cst, ” has the leading role, that of the manager of a great radio company, who tries to introduce programmes of artistic merit, but is forced by commercial interests to dip into the slime of the gutter to satiate depraved tastes. Beverley Roberts, who made her film debut opposite A 1 Jolson in "The Singing Kid,” and was seen more recently as Joe E. Brown’s leading lady in "Sons O’ Guns,” has the lending feminine role opposite Bogart. Helen MacKellar has the role of the woman who twenty years before had killed the man who had betrayed her, had lived a decent life with a man who loved her enough to marry her, a part played by Henry O’Neill, only to have her past raked up at the time she is looking forward to a happy marriage on the part of hei daughter. Others in the cast include Carlyle Moore, Jr., Linda Perry, Robert Middlemas, Douglas Wood, Virginia Brissac, Paula Stone, Bobby Gordon, FrauK Orth, Howard Hickman and Ferdinand Schumann - Heink. Michel Jacoby wrote the screen play from an idea by Louis Weitzenkorn. William McGann directed.