POWERFUL DRAMA.
“ The Good Companions ” will be shown finally to-morrow night at the Grand Theatre Brilliantly' mounted, gorgeously' costumed and setting a new' standard for acting. “ Rasputin and the Empress ” will begin a return season at the Grand Theatre on Saturday. This is the film that caused the recent sensation in England when Princess Hina Yousoupoft was awarded £25,000 damages in a libel action against the producers. The princess claimed £IOO.OOO from the M.G.M. Film Corporation, alleging that the character of Princess Natascha in the picture w'&s so thinly veiled that people throughout the world recognised it as herself A critic writes: Not only is “ Rasputin and the Empress ” dazzling because of the celebrated Barrvmore trio, John. Ethel and Lionel, in their first joint appearance in films, but because of its tremendous scope, its gigantic reproductions of the magnificent ceremonials of the pre-war Russian dynasty, its powerful dramatic structure, and the side diversions of striking characterisations Its interest, however, centres first and foremost on
the powerful story its depicts—that of the fall of the Romanoffs, once Russia’s most arrogant and exclusive Royal famity. Box plans at the D.I.C.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20278, 12 April 1934, Page 3
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