AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. .• . . f •;’> ■. ' . ' »' “SURRENDER.” ! U; - . “Surrender,” “Fox drama -based on Pierre Benoit’s Hovel, “Axelle,” and dret-ted by William K. Howard, opens its long-awaited engageipent at the Princess Theatre to-night. It is a drama of uncompromising truth, depicting the conflict between a woman’s love for a man and loyalty.,to her country. Kv The giri is betrothed tio the son: of a retired Prussian general, .> v but she falls in love with a French prisoner of war nyho has been detailed to work on the old general’s crumbing estate. Her aristocratic blood urges her to marry the ; noble : son of a Haichendorf, of indecision and her heartbreaking struggle, with /herself fs.unforgettable. Warner Baxter of “In Old Arizona,” • "Such Men Are Djangerous,” ‘“The. Cisco Kid/’ “Doctors’ . Wives/’ '‘Daddy Long Legs” and;, other,, .outstanding screen Successes, portrays ,the . leading role, and the beautiful Leila Hyams enacts the "role of the. girl. The cast is a large , one-and includes such well-known stage and screen per-i sonalitiek' as Alexander Kirklandj C. Aubrey Smith, Ralph,., Bellamy, William Pawley, Howard., ,Jjti'illipß>./Bodil Rosing: and- George Andre Beranger. Director Howard/ whose .-“TransAtlantic’ ..recently i.attractedjso ; much favourable .'Comment, ft said, .to ha-ye transferred i‘‘Surrender”- tp -the screen, with his usual sympathy . : and., understanding. The;: story was .prepared for the screen-. Sonya Leven and S. N. Behiynahj, both of whom are among the most successful dramatists of motion pictures, v. , >/■ This Fox Film dram* is- declared -to he one of,the redliy/great ,pictures of recent . production, . TCP^te. with romance and thrilling incidents. Chapter 1 of. the npw serial, “Detective Lloyd/ will also screened.