CHARMING SINGING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20544, 20 February 1935, Page 3

CHARMING SINGING.

' Evelyn Laye Has Lead in “ Evensong.” I “Now and Forever” (Carole Lom- : ard '. , Gar / Cooper and Shirley lemple) will be shown finally on Frii day night at the Regent Theatre, ‘ Evensong,” a picture with a r alth ° f charm ’ng singing, will head tne new programme at the Regent i Theatre on Saturday. Evelvn Laye is i starred in this screen adaptation of [ Beverley Nichols’s famous book, and • she is supported by Fritz Kortner ' Conchita Supervia. Alice Delvsia, Carl Esmond and Emlyn Williams. ’ The ; stor ?l shows how a gifted singer must . sacrifice, for the sake of her art, most of the things contributing to the fulness and enjoyment of life. Evelyn Laye contributes her best work to date ir L a bri,liant characterisation which affords the fullest opportunities for her vocal and histrionic talent. She . gives a convincing cameo of Irela, the j world-famous singer who does, in fact, sacrifice everything, even human love, for the career which in her declining years has become an obsession. But first she is just humble Maggie M Xeil just an Irish youngster who has a voice with great possibilities. Moving rapidly, the colourful story tells of her rise to fame until the great Irela has become the rage of two continents and has the world at her feet In support of Evelyn Laye, who holds the screen throughout with her appealing portrait of the unhappy singer, are Fritz Kortner, in a finely sympathetic study of her faithful, but sardonic manager: Carl Esmond as the luckless Archduke, and Emlvn Williams as George Murray, the youthful composer who induced the little Irish girl to go with him to Paris to begin her career. Box plans at the D.I.C.