PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“LLOYDS OF LONDON.” “Lloyds of London,” enjoying “cap* acity” business at the Plaza Theatre, is a stirring and romantic drama ol the lives of those who built up British supremacy on the sea, and in marine insurance in one of the greatest periods of our history, the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The story opens at a small village on the southeast coast of England, where two boys Jonathan Blake and (Freddie Bartholomew) and Horatio Nelson detect a plot to scuttle a ship which has been insured for its cargo of gold. They (resolve to go to London and warn Lloyds. Blake is obliged to carry out his missino single-handed, and he subsequently rises to take a part behind one of the syndicates. Then a tragic affair hardens his heart and he becomes a hard, almost ruthless man of affairs, determined to win respect oy his wealth and influence. Meanwhile Nelson also rises to power, and there are many dramatic sequences, culminating in the Battle of Trafalgar. The very strong cast includes the late Sir Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, J. Aubrey Smith, and Madeline Catfoll as the heroine. »