PLAZA THEATRE, STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1934, Page 6

PLAZA THEATRE, STRATFORD.

“BUREAU OF MISSING PERSONS.”

“Bureau of Missing Persons,” an unusual and thoroughly entertaining mystery drama which was screened to a large and delighted audience at the Plaza Theatre last night, will be finally shown to-night. An exceptionally strong cast of celebrated stars have the principal roles and include Lewis Stone, Bette Davis, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins and Pat O’Brien.

A new contribution to the list of imposing screen i achievements comes to the Plaza Theatre to-morrow in the presentation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s talking picture version of “The White Sister,” with Helen Hayes and Clark Gable in the principal roles. In its poignant, touching narrative, its beautiful direction, its effective camera work and in the brilliant performances of its two wellknown stars, this picture stands out forcibly as an example of the best in cinema art. F. Marion Crawford’s immortal story of the girl who enters a convent when she believes her lover to be dead, only to meet him again after she has taken her holy vows, is too well known to bear repetition. Sufficient to say that the new talkie version of the tale brings out its most forceful moments, describes the experiences of the romantic Italian girl and her soldierlover in a series of warm, sympathetic, human episodes and brings the narrative to a close in as heartrending a climax as has been seen on the screen in some time.