REGENT. THEATRE
"THE GOOD EARTH." The much-beraldCd "Good Eartb'" screens at the Regent ' Theatre tonight. To say that it is a great picture is not enough. It is the talbing sereen's most qutstanding maSterpiece. Co-starred in "The Good Earth" are Paul Muni and Luise ijainer. 1 ti 1936, both wqn tbe individual acting atrards fro.m tbe Achdemy of Motion Picture Airtd and Sciences. Together, their performances defy equal. ' ' Briefiy, this picture tells the story of a man's battle for sustenance from' the soil, witb his wffe " beside him. Wang (poftrayed by Paul Muni) is a farmer; With his wife O'Lan (Luise Rainer) he rears his family -despite the eruel setbacks from Nature, and the man-made strife of a bloody rovolution. ' His stfuggle for existen'ce, and ulti- • mate acquisitioa of riches, may be the parallef of any one of. us here to-day." In the simpiicity. of ."The Good Earth" in its applicatiofi to eVery maii lies fche secret of its greatness.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 2
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