THE REGENT

Wairarapa Age, 3 August 1936, Page 2

THE REGENT

“A TALE OF TWO CITIES.” Brilliant work is done by Ronald Colman and an able supporting cast in “A Tale of Two Cities," which is to be shown again at the Regent Theatre to-day at 2.15 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. The picture is of high merit throughout and the featured players include such celebrities as Elizabeth Allan, Blanche, Yurka, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone and Henry B. Walthall. Probably there are few who are unfamiliar with the general plot of the famous Dickens story, which has stood for almost a hundred years as a masterpiece. Essentially, it is the story of Sydney Carton, a brilliant wastrel, played by Colman, and his hopeless love for Lucie Manette, played by Elizabeth Allan. Even if Lucie were not in love with Charles Darnay, played, by Donald Woods, the affair could not have reached a happy culmination. It was doomed from the start. This is the situation upon whiih the story is built, and it mounts with emotional climaxes until it reaches its tremendous denouement with Carton's sacrifice of his life for the hap-piness of the woman he loves. In the midst of pomp and of tumult, the camera follows faithfully the group of men and women whose lives are vitally affected by the events of world importance taking place around them, and through the pattern of. vastness are woven the threads of tender romance, high adventure and glorious sacrifice. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.