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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 18

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“WOMAN TO WOMAN” David Compton, successful city business man and pillar of society, never dreamt that a song sung by a certain person would tear from his memory a veil that for years had hidden recollections of the terrible war days. Compton, gay and debonair, in the uniform of a British officer, had met the pretty and innocent Lola, a dancer whose vivacity and soul-inspiring songs had won the heart of everyone in the army. Their acquaintance grew to something more, a love that was undying. Blit when his honour told him to marry her, the call to war sounded like a grim note across a bay of solitude, and he was gone. The meeting was doomed to catastrophe. The first day in the trenches he was injured, his memory gone. On his return to England, he married a fashionable society woman, but love did not come to him, nor was his one great desire for children gratified. Then came the song, the song he had heard in France, and his memory returned. It was the same girl, now Deloryse, a famous dancer, who had waited for him throughout years of anguish, working for the child that was his. Their second meeting is confusive, and the laws of the country too stringent for divorce. Then follow days of love and waiting until the time arrives when the whole turmoil is settled as the calm which follows the storm at sea. Such is the heart-throbbing drama of “Woman to Woman,” the Cinema Art Films’ all-talking production, which is now at the Roxy Theatre. The leading roles are played by Betty Compson, George Barraud and Juliette Compton. Bright supporting items are also being shown including a Mickey the Mouse cartoon.