REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 32, 22 February 1937, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE

"LAND WITHOUT MUSIC." Glorious song numbers, sung as only Richard 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 beautiful melodies, and a director whose genius is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic — "Land Without Music" has all these ingredients which go to the making of perfect entertainment, and film-goers will have an opportunity of seeing this picture to-day when it will be shown at the Regent Theatre. The story is set in the eniddle 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, and she is furious, but an aecidental meeting with the golden-voiced tenor proves him to be charming, and the Princess finds herself falling in love with the man who has presumed to fiout her authority. Carlini incites the people to revolt, but ultimately a plan is evolved by which everyone, lncluding the Princess, is made happy ever after. Diana Napier plays this important role opposite Tauber,