King’s Theatre

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 2

King’s Theatre

“TOVARIOH” TO-NIGHT After a run of several years in New York, London, Paris and various other world capitals as a stage play, “Tovaricli,” a comedy dealing with a Grand Duchess and a Prince who wero exiled from their native Russia by the revolution, now comes to tho screen. It will be screened at the King’s Theatre tonight and Wednesday at 7.45 p.m. Warner Bros, made the picture and endowed it with a splendid cast and many magnificent settings. Claudette Colbert plays the Grand Duchess and Charles Boyer tho Prince. Other notable performers in the cast include Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Alelville Cooper, Isabel Jeans (imported from England for the picture), Morris Car* novsky, Alontaguo Love, Reine Riano and Heather Thatcher. Anatole Lit vale, famous Russian-born director—remembered for his picture of a few years ago “Be Aline To-night”—guided the making of “Tovarich. ” Although the main characters are Russian, all the action of the picture takes place in Paris, to which city the erstwhile nobles have fled. They have brought with them, in trust, 40 billion francs in gold. They become servants in the home of a rich Frenchman in order to live, and the story revolves around the efforts of various elements to get hold of the fortune, which tho Grand Duchess and the Prince will not touch themselves.