AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 435, 17 May 1937, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

Plaza Theatre. “Under Two Flags.” One of a long succession of desert romances which have been produced in fiction and on the screen with the* sam e outstanding success, the celebrated story of Ouinda, “Under Two Flags,” makes even greater history as one of the most notable pictures to come in recent yetars from the 20th Cen’ury Fox studios. It will show at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, tonight. Finely, acted and produced with telling realism, the tale makes' excellent entertainment. It is one of those few films which anyone with a love of action, true dramatic 'art and excitement appreciates from beginning to end. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the magnitude of the whole production and the Infinite pains ob. vlously taken to secure the correct atmosphere are most Impressive. It is ah epic picture. The simple tale of love and jealousy in an exotic desert setting still weaves its spell. Many stories have geen woven around the Foreign Legion since Ouinda first captured th e imagination of an olde? generation, but the sad tale of Cigarette and her gretat love for years to come. In spite of a charming performance from Claudette Colbert and a shorter, but equally accomplished, interpretation from Rosalind Russell, Ronald' Colman dominates the story. As a sergeant in the Foreign Legion, whos e P a st is mysterious but entire. I ly honourable, he has a part to which he is admirably suited'. His cultured but slightly melancholy. air gives just the right touch to the character and one lives with him in his tri. tumphs and hardships with on 6 of the greatest fighting forces the world has ever known. As major of the battalion, a blustering, forceful fellow, but a fine soldier, Victor MeLaglen, also has a part which allows him full scope. His affection for Cigarette and his jealousy for the regard, and later the love, she shows tor Colman, is the driving theme. The scenes of the fighting in the desert are without precedent. The photography rates with the best yet seen on the talking screen.

“Bride Walk* Out” Coming to the screen in a new kind of role into which she ably dovetails her extensive ran>g e of talents, Barbara Stanwyck is starred in “The Bride Walks Out,” a gay and breezy comedy, in. which she is seen with two of the screen’s foremost leading men, Gene Raymond' and Robert Young. It will screen at the Plaza on Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Stanwyck’s bow, in a comedy of the type of “The Bride Walks Out,” is .furthered by the appeaTande of Ned Sparks and- Helen Broderick, who contribute pungent humour. This quintet is involved in a romantic entanglement which makes for some of the screen’s gayest comedy, according to preview critics. A moment after Raymond and Miss Stanwyck are married, the bridegroom is arrested for violating the peace and the bride is pursued* by a millionaire man-about-town. Robert Young, who can provide the luxuries of life the lady cannot extract from her husband’s thirty-five per week:. Young’s intervention comes to a head, with Barbara planning to get a divorce. Raymond undertakes* a hazardous surveying position in South America, of which Miss Roderick learns through her husband, Sparks, who is Raymond's business buddy. A. mad and merry |n-the.nick-03-time pursuit from. Young’s swank Long Island estate to the Steamer pier from which Raymond’s boat is departing satisfactorily ends this devil_may-car e comedy.