WAIPAWA THEATRE
"EAST MEETS WEST," TO-MOR-ROW, WEDNESDAY. Here is a melodrama of a robust nature, -with. George Arliss giving a characteristic performanee as a crafty Sultan who replenishes his exchequer by deft diplomacy involving Great Britain and an Eastern power. Developed with great effect, ornate settings, large crowd scenes, gripping suspense and the star's personaiity have combined to make..a.rach. offering for all lpvers of spectacle and drama. George Arliss appears as the Rajah of a "tiny kingd-om. known as Renang whieh, by virtue "of* its geographical position, is caveted.by Great Britain f or harborage purppses. A powerful Eastern eountry also makes a bid for the Sultan's friendship, apd .the wily potentate "plays" thenr . both .until he has Nextraeted a niillion pounds from eaeh. . • • Woven into the main pl'ot structure is the saga of a hardrdrinking British Customs officer, whose pretty wife has an affair with the Sultan's ■Oxford-edu-eated son,« Nezim. - The situation is ,provocative of suspense at the climax, when, the. white. man is-on the point of being hanged for rum-runniijg, only to be . sayed . at the .cost of , the English treaty" with the Sultan.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 8
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185WAIPAWA THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 8
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