AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

[REGENT THEATRE TO-MORROW: LESLIE HOWARD IN PHILLIP GIBBS’ “CAPTURED” What would a man do when faced with tiie opportunity of sending to his death before a firing squad the lover of his wife? Such a question is answered iu “Captured,” the adaptation of Sir Philip Gibbs’ novel, “Fellow Prisoners,” coming to the Regent Theatre tomorrow. The love of' the two men for the same woman is incidental to the love between the two men. Captain Alison has been an inmate of a German prison camp for some months when his iriend the aviator, Digby, arrives. Torn with his love for Monica, the wife of Alison, Digby makes a break, his escape coinciding with the assault and death of a little German girl for which crime he is returned to Germany to stand trial. Discovering his wife’s betrayal, the captain is forced to decide between righteous anger for revenge arid the retention of information proving Digby’s innocence of the murder charge. There is a climax to a stirring scene in which Digb’y is rescued from the firing squad. Then follows yet another sensation—the escape of hundreds of internees by the qse of a flock of German aeroplanes, and the courageous death of Alison. This final scene is remarkable for its tense situations. Leslie Howard is fittingly cast as Captain Alison, British officer, whose love for his wife is transcended by that for Jiis friend, and Douglas Fairbanks, jun., is a manly Digby. Paul Lukas, as a kindly German commandant (with Oxforji training), and Margaret Lindsay, as the erring wife, play their parts admirably. The delightful musical comedy, “Twenty Million Sweethearts,” concludes to-night. —Tauber in “Blossom Time” for New Year— Commencing with a gala midnight matinee on New Year’s Fve, Richard Tauber will have a four-day ’ season in his first- musical production entirely in English, “Blossom Time.” Glorious operatic music is the keynote of “Blossom Time.” The noted tenor appears as Franz Schubert, and sing's eight of the famous composer's best-known songs, The plans are now open.