PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“HEARTS IN REUNION.” Surprise follows dramatic surprise, romantic secrets are revealed and tangled lives set straight when the country doctor’s 3000 grown-up “babies” come back to share their joys and tears with the man who brought them into the world in “Hearts in Reunion,”. Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox’s latest screen triumph, screening at the Plaza Theatre. The picture which stars the worldfamous Dionne Quins and features Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, Helen Vinson, Slim Summerville, Robert Kent. John Qualen, Dorothy Peterson and many other players, boasts the year's most important cast in the season’s most unusual drama. The Quins’ Dr. Luke, played by Jean Hersholt, on the verge of retirement from the burdens he has carried for a generation, decides to call back from all over the globe the three thousand men and women whom he assisted into the world. From all over the country and from many foreign lands they come, the rich and the poor, the high-placed and the lowly, to take part in the reunion. Also joining the party is attractive young Dr. Tony Luke, the doctor’s nephew, whom he has called back to the little Canadian town from his post in Toronto to carry on with his (Dr. Luke’s) duties. Tony, though deeply in love with Mary, Dr. Luke’s nurse is followed by the wife of his superior in the Toronto Hospital, who refuses to release him to a younger and fresher love. In a climatic scene that combines all the elements of potent drama with pathos and uproarious humour, Dr. Luke, .Tony, Mary, Mrs. Sheridan and the doctor’s 3000 grown-up “babies”—including the governor of a state, a fading stage star, a crook just out of jail, and many other unforgettable characters—convene for the reunion Also present at the gathering, for added chuckles and heart tugs, are the celebrated Quintuplets. Coronation Film, Of intense interest on the supporting programme at the Plaza Theatre this week is the first film of the Coronation proceedings to be shown in the Dominion. • The film, a Fox Movietone newsreel, portrays the wonderful spectacle of the Empire’s greatest pageant. The scenes along the route and in the Abbey are extraordinary, and one responds to the unbounded .enthusiasm of the massed crowds that saw the King and Queen go by. Indeed, those who see the picture see a great deal more than many of those iwho were on the spot.