AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 February 1935, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT. “ONE MORE RIVER.”

“One More River,” a screen play based on tho last novel written by the late John Galsworthy, and with Diana Wynyard in the leading role, was received by large audiences at the Regent Theatre on Saturday with expressions of approval that were thoroughly well deserved. The story of the play, which centres on the British divorce law, is well endowed with human appeal, and tho acting and staging are good in every detail. Scenes in London, including an old-fashioned, oali-wain-scotted law court; in Oxford, and in parts of rural England, are in themselves full of interest and there are amusing glimpses of political life. In tho character of a woman who wins a somewhat difficult release from a thoroughly unpleasant and unsatisfactory husband Miss Wynyard gives a performance that is at once strikingly impressive and admirably restrained. In this play she adds notably to her reputation as an actress of outstanding and exceptional gifts. The various subordinate and supporting parts, some of them making no slight call on judgment and ability, are all most competently taken. While it is a play with a moral and a purpose, “One More River” is first-class entertainment, in which splendid standards are set not only by Miss Wynyard, but by all members of the company. There are excellent supporting items both interesting and amusing. The same programme is to be shown again this evening. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.

COSY THEATRE. ‘THE SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERY’ “The Scotland Yard Mystery,” featuring Sir Gerald du Maurier, which is to be shown again at the Cosy Theatro this evening, is an unusually gripping detective drama. Tho story centres round the discovery by the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard that the Home Office pathologist is a crook, and his attempts to bring him to justice. The pathologist has discovered a serum which, when injected, produces the appearance of death, and he has used this on several heavily insured people, obtaining large sums of money on their insurance policies. When tho Inspector eventually thinks he has his man cornered, he is threatened with tho death of his daughter, whom the crook has kidnapped and injected with his serum, the secret of the antidote to which he alone knows. Being handcuffed, he is temporarily released to revive the girl—and thus he makes his getaway. The sensational climax shows the villain finally caught in the terriblo trap of his own fiendish invention, when he injects the serum into himself, to escape the police. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone,2496. -