HUMAN DRAMA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 276, 16 July 1932, Page 7

HUMAN DRAMA

LILIAN DAVIS MAKES A WELCOME SCREEN DEBUT. "MANY WATERS" "Many Waters," when it was put on the stage was an unqualified success; on the screen it is no less so. Supported by a cast of well-known West End players, Lillian Hall Davis and Arthur Margetson capture all hearts by their sincere and sympathetic portrayal of a simple couple who, falling in love at first 'sight when they met by chance at the Earls Court Exhibition, marry at the ages of 21 and 19 and remain in love through the storm and stress of a very troubled life. Success at first attends Mr. Barcaldine in busiri'ess, but later he gets into financial difficulties, becomes bankrupt, faces the criminal "court, and narrowly escapes prosecution by the intervention at'the last momefit of his chief creditor's wife, who has heard that his business trouble's are not his only ones, he has lost his only daughter, a girl of twenty years old. Simply and sincerely played, there is a wealth of human drama in this picture, coming to the Majestic Theatre, July 21. Arthur Margetson as Jim Barcaldine, is restrained and beautifully acted, and as Mabel, his wife, Lilian Hall Davis makes a welcome and long overdue screen debut. Elizabeth Allen is a charming daughter, Freda; and amohg others in a strong cakt, Mary Clare gives a spirited interpretation of the wife of Barcaldine's bigge'st creditor, at first iriclined to urge her husband to be hard on him, but eventually instrumental in reli'eving him of one of his heaviest troubles.