RENOWN THEATRE
GREAT DRAMA OF SEA No praise is too high for the magnificent qualities of "San Demetrio— London," which comes to the Renown Theatre on Fnday and Saturday. r ... Telling vdth unsurpassed faithfulness and dramatic power the real-life story of the survivors o an oil tanker who, in 1940, broughl their ship safely home, despite shelling, fire, storm and tempest en during unbelievable hardship with stoic fortitude, the picture u brilliant both as .to the sincerity oi its acting and the exceptionallj high standard of its technical qualities. ^ ... Alive with humour touched witr pathos, and always inspiring ^unc forceful, the subject is oue whicr will hold any and every audience engrossed from first to last. Oi itf cast of sixty, it would be invidiom to single out any for espccial mention, each and every one lives hi: role, and all are irreproachable lr their closeness to real life.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 September 1946, Page 3
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149RENOWN THEATRE Chronicle (Levin), 19 September 1946, Page 3
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