CIVIC THEATRE

Otaki Mail, 25 January 1943, Page 2

CIVIC THEATRE

Presenting Anton Walbrook in the most distinguished role of bis career and offering a grand combination of fragrant romance, scintillating music and vivid aerial thrills, “Dangerous ■Moonlight,’’ K.K.O. Radio’s great new British feature, comes to the Civic Theatre to-morrow. The conflict that tortures the soul of a brilliant Polish musician, who sacrifices his career and happiness to serve his country is the structure upon which has been erected the powerful emotional drama of the new film. In Warsaw, during the final days of Polish resistance against the Nazis, a beautiful American newspaperwoman meets and falls in love with a ■young Polish aviator. Poland falls, but ’.he couple meet again in America, where the young man is revealed as a brilliant musician about to stait a concert tour in aid ol : his country’s relief. After brief romance they are married, but their happiness is overshadowed by the desperate desire ot the airman to rejoin his country’s forces in Britain. The poignant situation that comes about when lh c girl innocently at-

,ls to stifle her husband’s sense oi duty the rift in the romance when the a:nnan leaves for England and the many moments of vivid action which take place before the couple are reconciled, provide pulsating highlights leading to the memorable conclusion. "Affording Anton Walbrook the greatest opportunity of his career for dramatic 'characterisation in the role of the musi-cian-aviator, “Dangerous Moonlight” 13 made further notable by the splendid performance forthcoming from Sally Gray as the newspaperwoman. Derrick de Marncy as Walbrook’s daredevil Irish friend, Keneth Kent as a theatrical impresario, and Percy Parsons as Miss Gray’s millionaire father are other players in prominent roles.