EMPIRE THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 5

EMPIRE THEATRE

SEASON EXTENDED Lya Lys, born in Berlin of Russian parents and reared in France and now a naturalised American, plays a German spy in “ Confessions of a Nazi Spy, the sensational Warner Bros, picture. which to-day will enter its second week at the Empire Theatre. Edward G. Robinson, star of the production. was born in Bucharest. Rumania, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in his childhood. He became an American citizen automatically when his parents took out naturalisation papers. He is playing a GMan in the picture. George Sanders, born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) of English parents, reared in. England and on the Continent, plays a Nazi spy in the same production. Leon G. Turrou, born in Warsaw. Poland, of French-Polish parents, reared in Poland, Russia, Germany. France, Egypt, India, and China, naturalised in 1921, is the former G-man who served as technical adviser on the same picture. Anatole Litvak, born in Russia and subsequently a resident of Germany, France, Hungary, and , the United States, was the director of the picture. Francis Lederer, one of the stars, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. got his start on the stage in Hungary, then made pictures in Germany and France and Spain and, finally, the United States. He got his final American citizenship papers only a few months ago. He also plays a Nazi spy in the nicture. Paul Lukas, another one of the Nazi spies, was born in Budapest. Hungary. He began his dramatic career in Hungary, then. moved to Germany for screen work. He went to England, then to the United States in 1927. Henry Victor. who portrays an agent of the dread Gestapo, the German secret police, in the picture, was born in England of Gerjjian parents. He has been a citizen of the United States for many years.