" TELL ME TO-NIGHT.”

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12617, 9 April 1934, Page 4

" TELL ME TO-NIGHT.”

A DELIGHTFUL FILM. ‘*Tell Ale To-night,” which so thrilled Saturday’s packed audience at the King’s Theatre, has an appeal to a wide public. The lover of the operatic will find its concerted numbers impressive, those w hose taste is more in the direction of individual vocalism have in Jan Kiepura a tenor who lias won fame and achieved success in many countries. Here is the man who has created a furore on the Continent in the Continental versions of the picture, ‘‘Song of the Night,” who is an excellent- actor as well. But “Tell Ale To-night” does not depend even upon such admirable vocalism as his for its entertainment qualities. The picture has a story to tell, one in which such excellent delineators of comedy' as Sonnie Hale, Edmund Gwenn, Betty Chester and Athene Sevier have a share, not to forget Alagda Schneider, the Continental actress who could not boast of a word of English before she trained. for this G-aumoxit-British picture. The story' is credible as well as witty, and the constantly occurring amusing situations are handled with the skill that marks the work of these wellknown stars. In “Tell Ale To-night,” Sonnie Hale, playing the character of Koretsky, a crook “wanted” in many Continental cities, finds his bluff called. He ingratiates himself with Ferraro, a world-famous tenor, and appoints himself as liis secretary. Stopping at a Swiss town they are called upon by the fussy little Mayor, who greets the secretary as Ferraro. The tenor jumps at' the opportunity to get a rest, and Koretsky finds himself accepted as Ferraro. He is faced with the problem of filling the tenor’s place without liis world-famous voice. The position is also complicated by the fact that the police are looking for the notorious Koretskv. Difficulties arise, and the fun is fast and furious. Sonnie Hale is brilliantly funny in this role. The singing of Kiepura reaches supreme heights. This picture you simply must not miss. It will he screened for the last time to-night. The supports are extraordinarilv good, comprising “Our Fighting Navy,” coloured silly symphony, "Father Noah’s Ark” and Chapter 4 of the serial “Gordon of Ghost I City.”