WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 120, 7 June 1937, Page 10

WAIPAWA REGENT

"Anthony Adverse" — To-night Oue of the most xemarkable periods in the world 's history — tho latc seventeen hundreds and the early eighteen hundr^ds, the Napoleonie era — has a spectacular representation in "Anthony Advorse," tho film which is to bo shown at the Waipawa Eegent to-night. Theatre to-night and on Monday The cast assembled ia most of the most notable of recent years — Frederio 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 Napoleonie Wars, the slave traffie of north-western Africa, opera, all the fabulous adventures and amours, the faiths and despairs of tho Hervey Allen hero, This is cinema of the opulent variety, a two and a-half hour condensation of the famous Allen novel, with a background of Napoleonie luxury. Korngold, the man who arrangod the Mendelssohn score for "Midsummer Night 's Dream," has composed one of the most talked-of scores of the year as a background for the picture. Filmdom has proclaimcd the film as one of its greatest triumphs. So it. is. Few films ever made have had the same scope or been interpreted by so skilful a cast.