"MARIE ANTOINETTE."

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16

"MARIE ANTOINETTE."

Nbrnia SJaearOT, whose -courage has won- tor .her'the respect and -admiration -of ; a < world that -hailed- with, enthusiasm her decision to resume : a 'brilliant career,, returns to, the screen in "Marie Antoinette." With Tyrone , Power, as her co-star, for the first*,' time,,, Miss Shearer brings to life ;the glamorous and -fascinating 'Antoinette, a role' she has.waited four, years'to -play. f Power is .cast as Count Axel, de Fersen, .the man. who dared to lpve a ' Queen of France. History- has writtenl iio more tenderly romantic pr grimly tragic- epi-sode-than thai; of the ; little Habsburg Archduchess^ whose marriage to Louis August,* Dauphin 'of France, changed the' course of 'empires. The powerfully dramatic character'role of Louis is' played by. Robert Morley, who was discovered '.jdn London after -.*a--, year's search.- VA- -happy, and,-carefree girl,, Antoinette, lqoked. forward, to her wedding as the supreme adventure., ' She! left for'•; Paris iri" high spirits, soon" to be disillusioned by her- meeting with" Louis,;stupid, physically unattractive, terrifled-by a marriagerhe'did hot want. Demed the love of a- husband and friends she. could trust and surrounded by enemies in the Palace of Versailles, Antoinette .determined to find happiness no ornatter what the: cost. 'She became the gayesV most extravagant woman. in . France. ' She gave ■ lavish parties, lost' fortunes at-the-gaming tables, and welcomed dangerous flirtations., Then Antoinette met Fersen. They fell desperately ..in. love, a love, that ..as a Queen, Antoinette . had to deny. But through the later year's it; was Fersen's love and his courageous efforts: to save Marie Antoinette from the guillotine ithat: provided dne' of tory's' most beautiful love stories. ..