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Upper Hutt Weekly Review, Volume I, Issue 11, 28 February 1936, Page 3

'•ESCAPE ME NEVER" A TRIUMPH The sensational success of Elizabeth Berg-ner in the stage version of "Escape Me Never" is still a household term in theatre-going circles. Beautifully stag-ed and finely acted, "Escape IVIe Never" is an unforgettable picture. The story tells of the soul of Gemma, a self-assured little gamin, whcm we first meet in paralysing converse with the stately McClean's in Venice. Gemma makes no bones about having- had a baby, and when she adds that a Sanger is her lover, the fat is truly in the Are, for Sanger is the name of the man in love with Penella McClean! When Gemma learns of her innocent Iniquity, she races off to the Dolomites, in company with both the guilty and the injured Sanger. In the Alps Sebastian falls in love with Finella, and Gemma leaves him to go to London, followed by the conscience-stricken Sebastian. The latter now writes a ballet, and the existing- drama rises to its height in the situation of Gemma's baby dying at' the very moment when Sebastian is too harassed with rehearsals to help her. His apparent callousness causes thje final break with Fenella, who goes off with Caryl Sanger, leaving. Gemma . to patch things up with her husband. '