“GONE WITH THE WIND”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 9

“GONE WITH THE WIND”

4> Saga of the greatest upheaval in American life, masterpiece of technique and withal, a simple and moving human story. ' Gone With the Wind " has its Dunedfn premiere at Hie Regent Theatre on Friday, September 26. Never before have line dramatic events of the Civil War been portrayed in such starkness and dreadful realism, and through the bright sheen of the story runs the golden thread ihat is Scarlett O'Hara. It is her wavw.ird. untamed spirit and wild breath-taking beauty that lift the story from the top flight to a niche of its own. There are some who say that it is a woman's picture; that the poignancy of some of the scenes that stand out as masterpieces carry a special female appeal. Be this as it may, all—men and women alike—Who love colour, romance, joy, intrigue, pe:tacle and realism—for Gone With the Wind " has all these—cannot fail to applaud a gem of perfect entertainment. The characters move gracefully through the story. Rhett Butler, an easy-going egotist with a colossal conceit, swaggering, wealthy and cynical, but a man withal and the man whom Scarlett could have moulded to her rebellious will with a gesture but failed Ashley Wilkes, breathing the courtly graciousness of the South, and Melanie Hamilton, the true beauty of whose character emerges from the shadows of the opening chapters, become ennobling personalities of the story. .