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The Theatres

REGENT Matinee and evening screening to-day, with an evening presentation to-morrow, "Florian" Robert Young. Helen Gilbert, Irina Baronova, Ghas Goburn, Reginald Owen and "Florian," A man—a girl—and a Royal White Stallion. Every now and then there comes to the screen a picture so great, so gripping in theme, that it Avrites a new page in screen history. Such a picture is Metro-Gold-Wyn-Mayer's "Florian," cavalcade of the pomp of Austria and the fall of the Empire. It takes you to Vienna in its glamorous days before the World War. You see Emperor Franz Josef's Imperial Bail, the review of the magnificent Lippizen horses; t1.3 gaiety of a happy land. Then war, revolution, world reorganisation. Amid this cavalcade of thrills, spectacle and turmoil is told tlip love story of a boy and a girl, she a duchess, lie a groom in the Imperial stable, tending Florian, the Emperor's magnilicent stallion, which thev both love,

GRAND To-day and to-morrow, "The Witness Vanishes," Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie. A bright and breezy murder mystery. The owner of a big newspaper is discovered in a sanatorium when Wendy Barrie, looking for her father, narrowly avoids being run over by a Lord in a posh car, but is saved to initiate a train of action which gives the incarcerated magnate the opportunity to escape. "House of Fear" Wm. Gargan, Irene Hervey, Robert Coote, Alan Dinehart. Never before a mystery so funny, never a comedy half so mysterious. . . Mystery that is strange, perilous, baffling.

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 229, 23 October 1940, Page 5

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The Theatres Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 229, 23 October 1940, Page 5

The Theatres Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 229, 23 October 1940, Page 5

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