EVERGREEN.” BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13074, 7 October 1935, Page 4

EVERGREEN.”

BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY.

A picture of unusual merit will he the chief feature of Tuesday’s programme at the King’s Theatre. Jessie Matthews and a strong east, including Soimie Hale. Betty Balfour, Barry Maekay and many more, appear in “Evergreen,” a GaumontBritish adaptation of the famous C. B. Cochran’s brilliantly successful stag© production. This elaborate screen play, which will he distributed ill Australia and New Zealand hv Fox Films, has been pronounced the most brilliant British picture of its tyjM- over made. Direction, photography, acting and art direction together create a film of which any studio in the whole v.oild might be proud. The story, too, is coherent as well as cohesive. In the prologue a famous music hall" artiste bids farewell. under dramatic circumstances, to the scene of many of her triumphs. Twenty-three years later, her daughter, who has inherited her mother’s outsanding ability, impersonates her with such success that London, flocking to see her, is completely deceived. Emphatically “Evergreen” is a picture not to be rnisse-d. Every opportunity has been seized to present lavish spectacle; haunting melodies are generously distributed throughout the romantic show; there are dances on the big scale; the story scintillates with comedy, while strong dramatic touches have thoiir place. There are brilliant supports.