STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 100, 14 May 1937, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

"LLOYDS OF IiONDON"' Filmland 'a sensational new sweethearts, handsome Tyrone Power and beautiful Madeleine Carroll, find nnforgettable romance in "Lloyds of Lon« don, " Twentieth Century-Fox screen achievement screening at the State Theatre to-morrow, the story of & love that changad the destiny of an empire. For his portrayal of the romantic lead, Tyrone Power flnds himself headed for stardom as the newest romantic Sensation of the screen. * ' Lloyds of London'; deals with the growth of the association of insuranjce nnderwriters during the INapoleonjo "Wars. . . . The Battle of Trafalgar and Nelson 's death ha ve been photographed with great care to preserve hiatorical accuracy; indeed, care has been taken with every sequence. . . . The period with which the film deals was the heyday of masculine vanity and sartoriaU. elegance. Beau Brummel was the arbiter elegantium, and the dandy was Teaching toward his finest flowering as a Eegency buck. * . . All this splen-* dour makes a colourful background fojf a diatinguished cast. Ablaze with action, vivid with pag« eantry and vital with drama, this Story of a love that changed the destiny of an empire unites in swiftly-moving kaleidoscope the thrilling aecount of{ the founding of England's sea power, and the establishment of the world 's mrtat exciting and extraordinary institution. Set against the tnrbulent canvas of the beginnings of British supremacy of the seas, the romance serves to focus :nto a single stirring kaleidoscope the bvrth of an empire and the growth of the world 's most extraordinary and excity business organisation. An integral part of the fortuneg of Great Britain, Lloyds of London found her early struggles closely bound up with marino policies, and Jonathan Blake innovated the now famous procedure of insuring everything and anythlng. The impressive cast also features Sir Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith and Virginia Field. "One Exciting Adventure" and "Career Woman" screen finally tonigbt.