FREDRIC MARCH AT MANAIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 10

FREDRIC MARCH AT MANAIA.

“DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY.” Never before in the history of motion pictures has a production been so excellently cast as Paramount’s superb “Death Takes a Holiday,” to be shown at Manaia to-night. Fredric March in the starring role makes another bid fox' the best, acting award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which he won for his role in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in 1932. The frankly provocative theme of * “Death Takes a Holiday” concerns the problem of Death taking a three-day holiday that he may study life, learn why men love living and fear the eternal parting. He comes to earth as a gay, dashing, romantic lover, enthusiastically taking part in all of life’s pastimes and games. But nothing intrigues him. He saves love till the last, until almost the end of his holiday. In a series of dramatic circumstances he finds an enduring love, and, •in the arms of a beautiful girl, learns all that is beautiful in life. But he, like any mortal man, must depart, and he dreads the thought of leaving behind the life he found so rapturous.