TWO GREAT STARS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 December 1937, Page 6

TWO GREAT STARS.

DRAMATIC, ROMANTIC ENTERTAINMENT. Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck achieve their true greatness together in "His Affair,” which opens at the State Theatre on Saturday. That they should do so is not exactly surprising, for Twentieth Century-Fox, producers of the picture tlie world is talking about, have cast,as co-stars the screen’s most real-life sweethearts, regarded, in Hollywood as the film colony’s Number; One off-screen romance. In "His Affair,” both Taylor .and Miss Stanwyck find the most important etory either one has ever had, a dramatic account •of; a love supremely courageous and unashamed, endangering the nation’s highest places and gambling life itself for a higher stake. And for Victor MeLaglen, who heads the strong supporting cast, it marks the Strongest role he has had since his powerful 7 characterisation in "The Informer”- earned him the acting award of the' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

A picture in the mood of great romance, with the surge of mighty drama, “His Affair’ * not only provides Robert Taylor with a truly Taylor-made role, allowing Barbara Stanwyck to match his greatness with a fire and power given full scope for the first time, but it gives them their supreme opportunity to do these things together—to be together, to act together, to become greater together. The exciting events of “His Affair’’ take place at the turn of the century, when the stability of the nation is threatened by an unprecedented series of sensational bank robberies in the Middle West. In a desperate move, President William McKinley calls upon a young Lieutenant, Robert Taylor, who has had a brilliant record under Admiral Dewey. Lh a mid-Western city known as n criminal centre, Taylor meets a cafe owner, Victor McLaglen; his right-hand

man, Brian Donlevy, and tlie singing and dancing star of the show, Barbara Stanwyck. Hearing that the men have come into large sums ,of money through mysterious channels, Taylor notes that their absence from the cafe coincides with a bank robbery in another city. The strong supporting cast includes Sidney Blackmer, John Carradine, Alan Dinehart, Douglas Fowley, Robert McWn/In ■Prnn'lr Hnniriv find SilT Rumann.