TUDOR THEATRE

Waikato Independent, Volume XLI, Issue 3890, 11 August 1941, Page 5

TUDOR THEATRE

RETURN SEASON OF "SUEZ." TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY . To the dream of a young Frenchman the world owes one of its most important waterways. This fact is the,basis pf the pictorial theme of "Suez," which will have a return season at the Tudor Theatre tomorrow and Wednesday. The picture creates a great deal of charming romance for Ferdinand De Lesseps, interwoven with the absorbing central thread of the building of the great Suez Canal. With Tyrone Power taking the leading male role of De Lesseps, a splendid backing cast fills out the personnel-, and an enormous number of extras used altogether in the creation. Besides the love story ahd the actual work on the canal, there is a tremendously'exciting scene of a desert hurricane, a terrible simoom that nearly finishes the ■'■ engineer and his dream. All the desert scenes are wonderfully photographed in faint sepia tinting, and there is a vivid and thrilling episode of Turkish soldiers biasing up a mountain with dynamite to impede the progress of the canal. Louis Napoleon's court is depicted with eye-opening splendour, and altogether the backgrounds and settings are lavishly gorgeous in the extreme. Others in the cast are Loretta Young( Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg and Joseph Schildkraut. Screening finally tonight will be Priscilla Lane in "Three Cheers for the Irish," and Chester Morris in "Girl From God's Country."