"THE GARDEN OF ALLAH."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 6

"THE GARDEN OF ALLAH."

Tivoli Theatre on Friday. Reproduced" as it isTn nauiral colour, "The Garden of Allah," which ' will start on Friday at the Tivoli Theatre, must be ranked as an outstanding picture. Not that the colpur dominates the film, for both the desert settings in which the film abounds and the interiors are-chosen with; irreproachable, taste. Against such a notably beautiful background is thrown a story deeper than the average screen plot. The dominant issue is the love of a beautiful girl who is seeking peace in the-:desert after the loss of her cherished: father,, and, a man unused to the ■wgys of the worldj an' escapee from a Trappist monastery.. -A strange courtship, in which the. woman, does her best to allay the unrest in her lover's soul, marriage, and a honeymoon in the desert.lead up to a:.protracted climax, in which the-man-is-;revealed as one who has broken vows more,sacred than those pf marriage—a contract with the Churiih; It is at this stage that Charles Bby,er, the leading' actor in the film, rises to great' heights, as he t.ells of the unrest he has suffered since he forsook the Church for the world. Marlene Dietrich, too, plays her slightly less difficult part surely and sincerely. A comedy-romance played against the colourful background of a pretty camera model's career is the basis of "Smartest Girl in Town," a sprightly entertainment teaming Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern in the stellar roles, which will be shown as the additional feature.