THE PALACE THEATRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 6

THE PALACE THEATRE.

"South American George" is still going strong at the Palace Theatre. On Saturday evening the theatre was too small to hold those who desired to get in. The final screening will be to-night. To-morrow the head of the programme will be the much-dis-cussed "49th Parallel." Five great stars head the cast — Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, and Raymond Massey. Of course, no story is ever complete without the mist of romance, which is brought into "49th Parallel" by the feminine lead, Glynis Johns, seen as a Hutterite maiden, who has such a wholesome effect on one of the Germans that he is shot by his comrades for "treachery and desertion." Raymond Massey plays the care- free Canadian soldier who overstays his leave, and is glad of it when it gives him a chance to whip the

rmg-leader of the U-boat fugitives. Laurence plivier plays a French Canadian trapper who comes against the sinister sextet, paying with his life in a vain attempt to transmit a wireless S.O.S. after they have taken over his trading post. Anton Walbrook completes the "roster of the stars as the leading light of the Puritanical Hutterite Colony, where the antithesis of Nazi and Christian doctrine is most marked when the Nazis seek shelter within its environs. The Hutterites are mostly of German or Moravian extraction. They live a community life in various parts of Canada, living, very successfully, in accordance with the teachings of Jesus and running communal farms rather on Soviet lines. Their code for living is peace, security, tnlerance, and understanding. So in strong contrast is revealed the Nazi law of force and hatred. — ™__V —