TUDOR THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 15

TUDOR THEATRE

“Suez” “Suez,” which is continuing at the Tudor Theatre, has features, quite apart from the two stars, Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, which make it, within limits, an entertaining film, if not a great one. Chief of these features is the representation of a “Zobah-hah,” or “devil wind of the desert” which smites and almost wrecks the half-completed Suez Canal. For 10 awe-inspiring minutes this combination of cyclone and dust-storm howfe across the screen, producing a epecacle to equal the greatest in the cinema’s history. Only slightly less sensational is the explosion of a whole hillside brought about by Turkish guerrilla soldiers to hold up the canal project. Hampering also but eventually inspiring Ferdinand de Lesseps in his work are the persistent attentions of the French actress, Annabella, as a waif of the desert whose devotion to the canal-builder is unrequited. Among the colourful, well-portrayed historical figures who move across the screen, though not always in historical sequence, are Disraeli (Miles Mander), Prince Said (Edward Bromberg)), Napoleon HI (Leon Ames), and De Lesseps’s father (Henry Stephenson).