REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 10

REGENT THEATRE

"STORM 1H A TEAOOT." "Storm in a Teacup" screens fin- II ally to-night at the Regent. I ''The Eoad Back," Erich Maria Ee- I marque's sequel t'o the famous story, I "All Quiet on the Western Front," I will be shown at the Eegent Theatre I to-morrow. "All Quiet on the Western I FrOnt" was a story of the fight in I che trenches, but "The Eoad Back" I tells in an- equally dramatic and vivid I fashion the story of the fight that the I three heroes had to make on their re- I turn to a civilian world. In preparing I the novel for the screen, E. O. Sherift, I author of "Journey's End," collabor- I ated with Eemarque, and the result is I a film which retaihs all the power of I the story, with its effectiveness height- I ened by brilliant photography and dir- I ection. I So vividly did the author depict the I grimness of post-war Germany that he I was exiled, but the purpose of his hook I was not merely to expose the conditions I of his own land but to show from his I personal knowledge the effect that wai I has on humanity. Albert, the shy, like- I able youth who had gone to the war, I returns to find that a waf profiteer has I been paying attentions to his fiancee. I He shoots the man, with lesB compunc- I tion than he had shot his enemies in I the war, and cannot understand why ' I he is tried for murder when he had I reason for his deed. Gther episodes in | the story are presented in an equally | poignant fashion, | The leading roles in the pieture are I taken by John King, Eichard Cromwell, | Slim Summerville and Andy Devitae, | while B&rbara Read has the chfef fe- I minine part. |