WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 3

WAIPAWA REGENT

"Anthony Adverse"— To-night and Monday One of tbe most remarkable periods in the world 's history— the late seventeen hundreds and the early eighteen hundreds, the Napoleonic era— has a spectacular representation in "Anthony Adverse," the film which is to bo shown at the Waipawa Eegent Theatro to-night and on Monday The cast assembled is most of the most notable of xecent years — Frederic March in the name role, Claude Eains as the villainous Count, Loretta Young as his wife, mother of Anthony, Olivia de Havilland as Anthony 's wife and mistress of Napoleon. It is, in the idiom we owe to Noel Coward, a Cavalcade of that period; its sweep covers the Napoleonic Wars, tbe slave traffie of north-western Africa, opera, all the fabulous adventures and amours, the faiths and despairs of the Hervey Allen hero. 'This is cinema of the opulent variety, a two and a-half hour condensation of the famous Allen novel, with a baekground of Napoleonic iuxury. • Korngold, the man who arranged the Mendelssohn score for ' ' Midsummer Night's Dream, ' ' has composed one of the most talked-of scores of the year as a baekground for the picture. Filmdom has proclaimed the iilm as one of its greatest tfiumphs. So it is. Few filma ever made have had the same scope or been interpreted by so skilfui a cast.