GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT "Surrender," Fox drama based on Pierre Benoit's novel "Axelle," and directed by William K. Howard, opentfd at the Grand Theatre last night. ; It is a drama of uncompromising truth depicting the eonflict between a woman's love for a man and loyalty to her country. The girl is betrothed to the son of a retired Prussian general, but she falls in love with a French prisoner of war who has been detailed to work on the old general's crumbling estate. Her aristocratic blood urges her to marry the noble son of a Reichendorf, but she finds herself in the valley of indecision and her heartbreaking struggle with herself is unforgettable. Warner Baxter of "In Old Arizona," "Such Men are Dangerous," "The Cisco Kid," "Doctors' Wives," "Daddy Long Legs," and other outstanding screen sueesses, 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~ sonalities as Alexander ICirkland, C. Aubrey Smith, Ralph Bellamy, William Pawley, Howard Phillips, Bodil Rosing and George Andre Beranger. Director Howard is said to have transferred "Surrendel'" to the screen with his usual sympathy and understanding. The story was prepared for the screen by Sonya Levien and S. N. Behrman, both of whom are among the most suecessful dramatists of motion pictures. This Fox Films drama is declared to be one of the really great pictures of recent production, replete with romance and thrilling incidents.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19320603.2.11.2
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 243, 3 June 1932, Page 3
Word Count
250GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 243, 3 June 1932, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in