“DISRAELI.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 3

“DISRAELI.”

Famous Picture Coming to Theatre Royal.

A clever and laughable British comedy, “ Letting in the Sunshine,” is shewing at the Theatre Royal week. Also on the programme is “ Lilly Turner,” one of Ruth Chatterton's best films. Albert Burden, rightly called “ England's Charlie Chaplain,” performs uproarious antics in “ Letting in the Sunshine.' As Nobby, the "window cleaner, he fools through the picture, out of one scrape and into another, and always is vastly amusing. No other film, silent or talking, has scored the success achieved by “ Disraeli.” Wherever and whenever motion pictures are under discussion “Disraeli” is always remembered as a masterpiece of the screen. When it was previously shown it was the talk of the city, and it is safe to say that another successful season will be experienced when a new copy is presented at the Theatre Royal on Saturday. Intrigue, melodrama and high finance are intermingled in this brilliant British story. Arliss portrays with fidelity the character of the power ful British Prime Minister. Disraeli, who, in the face of scoffing and ridicule by his opponents and powerful banking interests, acquired the Suez Canal for England, outwitting Imperial Russia solidifying the position of Great Britain in the Far East, and making Queen Victoria Empress of India through his action. Woven through this plot of diplomacy and high intrigue is a charming love story enacted by Joan Bennett and Anthony Bushell, and assisted by the lovable and human Minister. “Disraeli” has a cast that is practically all-English, and English of the purest diction is spoken.