“CAVALCADE” COMING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 849, 24 August 1933, Page 3

“CAVALCADE” COMING.

Noel Coward’s Epic of the Empire. The box plan is now ope- the Regent Theatre for “ Cava lea oel Coward’s remarkable productic. .nich will have its initial screening on the evening of Friday, September 1. It is safe to say that no previous film has so stirred the blood of Britons as has “ Cavalcade It strides hot-footed through the last thirty-three years of British history, pausing at such critical episodes as the South African War, the Great War, and the Disarmament Conference, to recall the sorrows and the triumphs of the people of the Empire in their steadfast march toward greater honour and glory. There is fidelity and an extraordinary sense of spaciousness in the camera’s roving eye as it sweeps through the years. Noel Coward’s patriotism is devoid of the ** Mafeking ” tinge. When the crowd runs riot in Trafalgar Square on Armistice night it is the pathetic face of the woman who has just heard that her son has been killed that takes his interest and sympathy. And womanhood, giving sons and happiness to the voracious jaws of Mars, is as much his theme as the intoxication of victory. “ Cavalcade ” is like no other epic drama in its pilingup of shattering climaxes, in its terrific contrasts of rejoicing and sorrow, in the beautiful simplicity behind its power.