REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

"A WOMAH ALONE" "A Woman Alone", the first oi !i series of super productions to be madc by Garrett Klement Productions Ltd., for worid-wide release, will be presented at the Regent Theatre, to-morrow. Co-starring Henry Wilcoxon, popular handsome star of "Cleopatra" and "Th® Crusades", and beautiful Anna

Sten — a new, real Anna Sten — this pulsating human romance js set in tko picturesque surroundings of pre-war Russia. Every woman will live this love drama of a beautiful peasant girl who loved — not wisely but too well — a man far above her station — a captain of the regiment in which her fiance served. Both fought against the temptations of their love — but the dictates of the heart are strange indeed — as this unique trio of lovers are thrown into a maelstrom of passionate intrigue. Much of the Jpageantry of the country ha* been recaptured, while director Eugene Frenke, who lived there at the time, has brought a number of quaint customs to the screen for the first time. Many spectacular scenes are also featured in the production, such as a reconstruction of the St. Petersburg Barracks, a re-enactment of a wedding ceremony carried out in accordance with the ritual of the orthodox church, a brilliant ball, and a picturesque peassant feastival in which the famous ballets de Leon Woizikovosky, and some four hundred extras appear.