“THE DICTATOR”
Every setting, every scene, is a tiling of beauty —an artistic triumph in every detail of lighting and composition. Clive Brook and Madeleine Carroll present the central characters, Dr. Struensne and Queen Caroline respectively. The locale of the story, which is based on fact, is the Court of Denmark, when young Princess Caroline, sister of George 111. of England, was sent to the Danish court to marry Christian VIT. whom she Had never previously seen. Repelled by the vacillating character, no less than by the viciousness of her drink-sodden husband, she rebelled and, in her loneliness, turned to Struensee, an obscure physician but a clever opportunist who had climbed to dictatorial power over the King by the ladder of flattery. Sympathy soon ripens between the Queen and the dictator and their lives in this association make a superb story rising to a stirring climax.
Jeanette MacDonald will sing the Juliet role in the excerpt from “Romeo and Juliet” that forms the prologue to “Rose Marie.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 28 March 1936, Page 9
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