WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 13

WAIPAWA REGENT

"THE ROAD TO GLORY" TO-MORROW With one of the greatest casts ever featured in any picture, "The Road to Glory, ' ' Twentieth CenturypFoxj (production, will be screened on Wednesday at the Waipawa Regent Theatre. Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore are starred, with the supporting cast headed by June Lang and Gregory RatoflE. Baxter is seen as the war-vveary commander of a valorou? regiment. Monique, a .loveiy French nurso, provides him with liis only interest in life. Fredrie March, BaxtePs ckief aid, unwittmgly falls in lov-e with Monique too, unaware that Baxter cares deeply for the girl. The triangle creates a crisis- between the two raen, Which is increased when Baxter, to his astonishment, discovers that his fathor, Lionel Barrymore, is a private in the regiment. Glowing with pride ovcr tlicOld soldier's heroigm, Baxter 's sense of uuty compela him to order Batrynioro to tho rear, for the eaptaiu i'ully realises that if one man should err in his cluty, the entire company might be entlangered. Barrymore is not so easily djscouraged, bowever, and his burning uesire to serve his flag under his son, prompts him to bribe Gregory RatoflE to "lose" the order when it comea through. Thus, when the regiment moves towards the front, Barrymore is I .n tne rauKs. Vvliat glory does to the ; nearts of men and love to the hearts of women is revealed as the film moves swiftly, strongly, on to. its crowning cirmax.