REGENT THEATRE
"ANTHONY ADVERSE," TO-NIGHT "Anthqny Adverse" screens at the llegent Theatre to-night. The picture follows the romantic adventures of Anthony Adverse through five countries, across the seas and over threo continents, For mammoth sets, for colourful and picturesque backgrounds, Ibr djmamic action, for the unusual characterisation of lts tremendous cast from Fredrxc March, the sLar, down to the smallest player, for tlie glamour ofits "romance, its human interest and sheer unadulterated entertainment, this picture is unsnrpassed. But all this, while i'ull of colour, is but a background for a drama of human life, its loves and hates, its hopes and its disappointments 5 its desires and its passions its vain and futilo struttings and its vast achievements. Fredric March has given the screen some wonderfuf portrayals jn the past but hever has he risen to the heights of dramatic fire as in the title role of this picture, His Anthony is a living breathing person, stepping out of a book into real life on the screen. He is ably supported by Oiivia de Havilland,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 17
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175REGENT THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 17
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