The Theatres
REGENT "A Woman's Face" brings Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt to the Regent Theatre screen starting to-morrow in one of the most powerful and completely different dramas the screcn has seen in many a moon. The picture is hailed as a brilliant combination of characterisation, thrills, suspense and unusual romance. The story deals with Anna Holm, a woman whose horribly disfigured faces causes her to be shunned. Through this slie becomes the enemy of all mankind, commanding a blackmailing ring that preys on women who are beautiful. Into her life comes a clever, unscrupulous madman who sees in her the criminal potentialities he loves. A famous plastic surgeon finds her, operates, and restores her natural beauty. In the meantime her sinister lover has set for her the j task of murdering the child who stands in the way of his inheritance. Torn between the love she develops for the child and her infatuation for her evil lover, she faces a terrific situation, cleared through a novel dramatic twist.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 8
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172The Theatres Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 8
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