WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 115, 1 June 1937, Page 3

WAIPAWA REGENT

"Mary of Scotland" Wednesday The story ot a woman who, with the aid of but one man, dared pit herself against a host of ruthless war barons in a battle of force and intrigue that could not end until one or the other faction was wLoily ciefeated is pictured ln "Mary of Scotland," co-starring Katherine Hepburn and Fredric March, and showing at the Regent, for one night only, on Wednesday. The Scottish queen, whose career is told, f ought , with a vigor surprising in one so lovely and entirely feminine but as the film recalls she was destined to defeat, for the lords stopped at nothing to seize her power for themselves. They convinced the husband of her second loveless marriage, Lord Darnley, that favors denied him were granted Rizzio, her only devoted advisor, and with Darnley's aid murdered th© Italian in her very chambers. When the hapless Mary finally dared marry for love, they spread the rumour that it was her new husband, Bothwell, who murdered Darnley (mysteriously killed shortly after Rizzio's death) to make the wedding, possible. And so the people heeded this whispering and deserted the bold firebrand who was her last defender, Mary's nobles dared come in the open and throw all their forces against her. That fierce feud makes one of history's most colourful dramas.