REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 13

REGENT THEATRE

"LAND WITHOUT MUSIC." Glorious song numbers, sung as only liichard Tauber can sing them, comedy, crisp, wise-cracking comedy put over as only Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durante can put it over; an enchanting love story set to Oscar Straus' most beautifui melodies, and a direetor whose genius is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic — 4 4 Land Without Music" has all these ingredients which go to the making of perfect entertaiumeut, and film-goers will have an opportunity of seehig this picture to-day when it will be shown at the Regent Theatre. The story is set in the nniddle of the nineteenth century in the Italian Duchy of Lucco, a music-loving country whose Princess Regent is at her wits' end to satisfy the demands of the Austrian Ambassador who has come to collect a national debt. As a last resource she banishes music from the land until the debt is paid. Then Mario Carlini, Lucco 's world-famous tenor, arrives on the scene. He defies her ban, aud she is furious, but an accidental meeting with the golden-voiced tenor proves hioi to be charming, and the Princess finds herself falling in love with the man who has presumed to flout her authority. Carlini incites the people to revolt, but ultimately a plan is evolved- by which everyone, mcluding the Princess, is made happy ever after. .-Diana Napier plays this important role opposite Tauber.