“DISRAELI” RETURNS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 3

“DISRAELI” RETURNS.

George Arliss Masterpiece

Re-issued.

t( L-etting in the Sunshine ’’ and Lilly Turner will be showui finallv to-morrow night at the Theatre Royal. Motion pictures come and go so fast and in such quantity that it is impossible to remember many of them lor very long; but there are a few that. fFf *. not of an a S e but all time.” Of this number is “Disraeli,” the first talking picture in which George Arliss e\er appeared. An entirely new print of this magnificent production will be shown at the Theatre Royal on Satur day. bike some other classics of the screen. Disraeli ’ will always be good entertainment. It was not produced as a thing of the moment, to meet a passing phase of public taste or fancy. Ills, as it was designed to be, a piece of living history. Ever since the film was first shown, the producers have been receiving requests that it be released again. Just as the legitimate stage now and again revives great dramas of the P as *ri just as the works of Shakespeare. Sheridan and a few others are played again and again—so Warner Bros, are again releasing “ Disraeli.” But in this case there will be, owing to the nature of the talking screen, exact reproduction—every character, every scene, every line of dialogue the same and as clear as when the film was first shown to the public. Every truly great actor’s name is linked with one role in which his genius shone most brilliantly. In the case of Arliss his name will always be associated with “ Disraeli.” Box plans at the D.I.C.