HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE
When Warner Bros., who gave talking pictures to the world, announced that they had persuaded Max Reinhardt to 'produce Shakespeare’s greatest comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ they declared that the resultant picture would be the finest ever filmed. That this promise has been fulfilled everyone who saw the, gorgeously fantastic production at its premiere at His Majesty’s Theatre will agree. The film is a revelation of the possibilities of motion pictures. Here is art in its finest sense. Here is the sheer beauty of fantasy, where imagination has its fullest play. Yet here, too, is entertainment—for all the down-to-earth, side-splitting humour of the “ Dream ” had been retained, and spectators pause for a moment in their laughter to thrill at the drama or marvel at the beauty of spectacles. Through it all is heard the glorious music of Mendelssohn, especially arranged for this production by the famous Viennese composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and played by a fine symphony orchestra. The leading romantic roles are played by Dick Powell, Jean Muir. Ross Alexander, and Olivia de Havilland, whose mixed up love affairs lead to some strange pranks by the elf of mischief, Puck, portrayed by Mickey Rooney. Others include Victor Jory, Veree Teasdale, Anita Louise, lan Hunter. Hobart Cavanagh, and Grant Mitchell.
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Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 2
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213HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 2
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