THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 17

THEATRE ROYAL.

RONALD COLMAN IN "CONDEMNED!" To-day and to-morrow will see the last screenings of the "Gay Nineties." On Saturday a novel film will be shown, entitled "Condemned." Tho most unusual setting in picture history, the acting of such screen and stage stars as Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, and Louis Wolheim, and the power of a story from the hands of two famous authors, are among the noteworthy features of "Condemned!" tho new Samuel Goldwyn starring . vehicle for Ronald Colma-n. Following close on the enormous success of "Bulldog Drummond," "Condemned!" is said to be an even greater triumph for Colman. Its story is adapted from "Condemned to Devil's Island," Blair Niles's famous novel of life in the French penal colonies in South America. Sidney Howard, the famed New York dramatist, winner of tho Pulitzer Prize for "They 'Knew What. They Wanted," put "Condemned!" into screen form and wrote the dialogue. "Condemned!" is i> story of romance growing between the mistreated wife of a warden of the prison on Devil's Island and a convict whose sympathy for her plight ripens into love. Unique scenes of the interiors of prison-ships and squalid gaols, thrilling escapes through the tropical jungles, combine to make "Condemned!" one of the production sensations of the year.