"OLD HUTCH" AT THE PLAZA.
"SONG OF FREEDOM" TO-MORROW. "Old Hutch," which will be shown finally to-night at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, is the story of the man who is known in every town. There is more than mere wealth of humour in this new character who comes in the person of Wallace Beery. . He is the essence of rich, good humour, but beyond that he symbolises the easy tolerance, the quiet acceptahce of fate, and in the last analysis, the fiery individual who, when driven to fight, does it with his whole soul, his strong body and two good fists. Paul Robeson, who scored his last great screen success in "Sanders of . the River," is seen in one of the finest roles of his career in the Gaumont-British film "Song of Freedom," which is to open a season at the Plaza' to-morrow. In the part of a London dock labourer, who yeafns to return to his native Africa and is at last enabled to do so through his voice, Robeson eclipses all his previcius perforniances and reaches the dramatic heights. He is given widej scope for the exercise of his voice in several songs specially composed for! the film.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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