Tamara Desni Excels in Difficult Role

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 181, 3 August 1938, Page 11

Tamara Desni Excels in Difficult Role

DARK WORLD” DRAMA OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY

(Kosy: Screening Friday.)

“Dark World” is a brilliant gripping, drama, with plenty of excel'ent comedy relief, dancing and music.

The story tells of Stephen’s jealousy for his younger brother, Philip, and how it is brought to a head and symbolised by a dancer, the only woman Stephen has ever wanted. The dancer falls in love with Philip, who has always been the lucky one of the two brothers, and Stephen’s jealousy becomes so overwhelming that he plans to murder his brother. He devises and carries out the perfect murder, only to find that he has killed the wrong man, and we see tho dramatic and exciting ' consequences of his mistake.

Tamara Desni has undoubtedly the best role of her career, as the dancer.

She excels in the most difficult part she has ever played; she is also given every opportunity to display her dancing ability and takes full advantage of it.

Leon Quartermaine plays the role of the elder brother, ho makes an unsym- | pathetic character so vivid and real that one cannot help but feel a tinge of pity for the man who murders out o± sheer' desperation. The supporting players, all excellent- j ly cast, include Hugh Brooke as the ■ younger brother (he, incidentally, wrote j the story) Olga Lindo, Morton Selten, j Viola Compton, Fred Duprez, Googie Withers and Rex Evans, the celebrated cabaret artist and radio entertainer.