THE REGENT.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 2

THE REGENT.

“LIFE OF ZOLA” TONIGHT. Paul Muni, whose most recent film, “The Story of Louis Pasteur,” won for him the coveted gold statuette of the Motion Picture Academy as the best actor of 1936, comes to the Regent Theatre tonight at 7.45 o’clock for a four-day season, in another epic story, “The Life of Emile Zola.” It begins with the early struggles of Zola as a novelist, carries him along to wealth and fame, and goes thoroughly into his magnificent crusade on behalf of Captain Dreyfus, the army officer who was falsely accused of selling military secrets, and was unjustly convicted and sent to Devil’s Island. Muni, of course plays Zola. Another splendid actor, Joseph Schildkraut, portrays the unfortunate Dreyfus. The rest of the cast is practically all-star. Gale Sondergaard, who had such a sensational success in “Anthony Adverse,” is Madame Dreyfus; Gloria Holden is Madame Zola, and Erin O’Brien-Moore is “Nana,” the girl of the streets about whom Zola wrote his first great novel. Other notables include Morris Carnovsky, Vladimir Sokoloff, Henry O’Neill, Donald Crisp and Louis Calhern. Fifty immense sets were built for “The Life of Emile Zola” and nearly 5,000 players were used in its various scenes. It is absolutely essential to reserve early for this great picture.