REGENT TALKIES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXII, Issue 62, 9 February 1934, Page 2

REGENT TALKIES.

SATURDAY AND MONDAY, “SMILIN’ THROUGH.” “Smilin’ Through,” the fan slage play which Hollywood’s ( inine stars have long been yearnin bring hack to the talking s«| comes to Waipawa to-morrow, ai and 8, with Nonna Shearer in stan-ing role. Metro-Goldwyn-lI« which produced this hauntingly |J tiful drama, has boasted that it ». reveal the finest array of acting tt the screen has yet seen. It i, idle boast. The combination Norma Shearer with Fredrie Mi Leslie Howard, O. P. Heggio Ralph Forbes, represents as brill an assemblage of artists as eoul wished for. Add to this the spi v. hi eh Sidney Franklin brings i director, and the effort to aitai “perfectly acted” picture comes to realisation.

Nonna Shearer in this pi turns away from the sophisticate her past roles. In her dual chnri of Moonyeen and Kathleen 4 tans an ethereal charm as the and touches new dramatic he gt the other. In going back to romance she brings freshness, an mellow tenderness that arises the revisiting of memorable p It is the Norma Shearer of olj refreshened mood, and the res delightful. Fredrie March uls two roles. In both he is a soiti Norma’s hand. His is a finely tive characterisation and he | again that he is one of the sti most versatile actors. Leslie Hi too, carries a dramatic bunlm retains the same character thl out the story, and makes a teal from youth to old age. In tl gains new laurels, as do O. I’B gie, Ralph Forbes, Beryl S David Torrence, Margaret ■ and Forrester Harvey. I “Smilin’ Through” is the I mental story of a man who, :i« forget a tragedy which happeJ years earlier in his life, seel A vengeance by thwarting tin A the man who destroyed his 1-agA In each instance Norma Shut the girl involved.