AS YOU DESIRE ME

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 7

AS YOU DESIRE ME

GRETA GARBO STARRING IN ADAPTATION OF STAGE SUCCESS. PLAYS CAFE SINGEiR, Greta Garbo makes her new appearance in a picturisation of Lpigi Pirandeilo's brilliant play, "As You Desire Me," which will be shown on Saturday, May 27, at the Majestie Theatre. This is the play laibout th'e womanwith a dual personality which caused so cmuch diseussion when it was profiuced last season at the Maxine E1liott Theatre in New York. Miss Garbo's leading man dn "As You Desire Me," is Melvyn Douiglas, who will he remembered for his outstanding work opposite Gloria Swanson in *"To-night or Never." .The noted actor, Erieh' Von Stroheim, has a prominent part -in the production, as a novelist, and the oast also includes Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper, Rafaela Qttiano, Warburton Gamble, Albert I Conti, William Riccia,rdi and Roland Varno. "As You Desire Me" tells the story of Zara, singer in a Budapest cafe and protege of Salter, a perverted novelist, whom she loathes and from whose. cruel and hypnotic influence she longs to escape. The opportunity offers itself when Zara is claimed a's the long-lost wife of an Italian count, Bruno, who begs her to return home. Thus begins a strange masquerade which is complicated when Bruno's sister-in-law, in an attempt- to gain the family fortune, makes every effort to disclose Zara as an imposter. The battle of wits by which Zara retains her position and the diflSculties

she encounters in playing the role of j th'e wife she is supposed to he, make ] this a picture which offers the distin- j guished Swedish star every opportu- | nity for a brilliant dramatic and emo- J tional performance. | The picture is reported to contain j a numher of outstandingly heautiful l settings, partieularly the exterior | scenes filmed at sea as. the sun risesl | over the Adriatic, and) a tremendous 1 garden, filmed on the Gillespie estate j near Santa Barbara on which is built j an authentic reproduction of a pala- 8 tial Italian villa. f "As You Desere Me" was direeted | by George Fitzmaurice, who achieved such fine results with Garbo's "Mata Hari."