PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 69, 23 March 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“A MAN TO REMEMBER” A stirring story of the life, sacrifices, hopes, ambitions and achievements of a kind-hearted rural doctor, who is looked upon as something of a failure until he saves the community, forms the basis of “A Man to Remember,” which is to conclude today at the Plaza Theatre. The film starts with the funeral of the doctor (Edward Ellis) who, at the time of his death is greatly respected by practically everyone in the town. In a lawyer’s office above the silent and deeply-touched crowds watching the funeral pass, three hard-headed and somewhat unscrupulous business men are looking at the doctor’s estate and hoping he has paid his debts to them. It appears that he has only left a number of old bills and it is from these that the story is told. After his death the three merchants who hindered mis most in his work find that the doctor has the last say. Edward Ellis, Anne Shirley and Lee Bowman are starred. “Suez” Produced with the magnitude possible only on the screen, one of the most memorable pictures ever to come out of Hollywood, “Suez” is to commence at the Plaza Theatre with three sessions, including one at 10.15 p.m. The story is of heroic proportions. It tells of the amazing Ferdinand de Lesseps, who dreamed of creating the short route to the East, sought vainly by Columbus and Magellan, by tearing continents apart and joining the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Out of the choking sand, from the clutch of the raiding Bedouin, in the

face of the terrifying Sahara simoon —with blood, tears and passion—de Lesseps built his canal, driven by the love of two women to realise the dream men scoffed at. Tyrone Power gives thrilling realise to the central character with Loretta Young and Annabella stirringly appealing in the feminine leads. Allan Dwan directed ''Suez." A canal half a mile long, 100 feet deep and 150 feet across was dug by movie crews in the American desert near Yuma, Arizona, for scenes in the film. Other dramatic sequences were filmed on a 20-acre desert constructed on an abandoned golf course on the Twentieth Century Fox lot. Royal courts of Europe and Egypt were built for the film, which is highlighted by the romantic story of the loves that drove de Lesseps to the realisation of his dream.