WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 7, 1 October 1937, Page 12

WAIPAWA REGENT

"LLOYDS OF LONDON," SATURDAY AND MONDAY. Tall ships and lofty sails, charming ladies and gallant dandies of an earlier time; now and then the dull boom of cannon and the rattle of musketryl There is an electric impreBsion of something "really big" in the air, which, in Hollywood, Where such words as "stnpendous" and "colossal" have long since lost their meaning, is the intangible but potent evidenee by which those "in the know" concerning cinenia activities can tell that a pieture faf beyond unusual proportious is in the making. The scene is Ofie of the many sets at the Twentieth Century-Fox studio, where "Lloyds of London" is being filmed. There iS evidenee that the studio has extendcd itself for this pieture. For a cast, there are Freddie BartholomeW, Madeleine Garroil, Bif Gtiy Standing, handsotne, Tyrone Power, O. Aubrey Smith and Virginia Field, to mention but a few of the more than fifty stellar and featured players who, with several thousand extras, are working llnder DifectOf Heiiry Kilig's orders, When the last seene was shot Ofl "Lloyds of London" it marked the culiuixiRtion of tWO yCai'S ' efforts tO make the love stoi'y that ehanged the destiny of an empire a milostone in screen achievements. "Lloyds of London" will be screened lit the, Waip&wa Regent to-morroW uftCi'iiooti and evening, and again on Motiday, Already the booking is heavy, and patrons would be well advised to make their feservatiQns at MaeGregor'e.