AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 49, 27 June 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

TO-rHCHT’S ATTRACTION

A further treat is in store for patron's at the De Luxe Theatre this ev-

ening, when, in addition to a delightful movie programme headed by ‘\Lovc on the. Hun”, featuring Joan Crawford,. Clark Gable and the ever popular Franchot Tone, the famous Irish tenor Dan Foley, will render -a number of well loved Irilh melodies. This will be the final appearance of this great entertainer and lovers of these delightful songs of old Ireland are assured of a wonderful evening' 3 entertainment. - “KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR” Marl one Dietrich and Robert Donat, one of the most glamorous romantic teams in screen history, come to the Do “Luxe Theatre to-morrow when Alexander Korda’s “Knight Without Armour” begins a two-day engagement there. Fittingly enough, their vehicle is one of the ©greatest love stories of all time, from the pen of the famous James Hilton who wrote “Goodbye Mr Chips’’ and “Lost Horizon”.

Her first English picture casts the exotic Marlene as an alluring Russian countess, and Donat is seen as a mysterious modern knight errant whose hatred flaro.s into a flame of protective love as they live through a series of stirring adventures, knowing moments of incomparable horror and bliss as they flee from the countless terrors that threaten to tear them apart. The locale of this feature is Russia during the fevered days when Reds and Whites fought for supremacy. Miss Dietrich has the role of a young aristocratic woman captured by the Reds. She is shuttled from Red to White guards and back again, goes disguised as a peasant and in the frantic search for the border and freedom, finds that her heart has been lost to the man she thought her enemy.

Critics who have seen “Knight Without Armour” in preview showings agree that the gamut of emotional moods played by her is richer than anything she has yet given on the screen. Special pains were taken to make the revolutionary scenes authentic, so that the glamour of a vanished civilisation ‘ and the strange events that transformed Russia have been recorded with absolute fidelity, The transition was accompanied by incredible drama that changed world historv.