"If I Were King" Treasures at your Feet I'd Fling.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1939, Page 4

"If I Were King" Treasures at your Feet I'd Fling.

BIASED on the play by Justin Huntly McCarthy, Paramount’s grand and dashing romance, “If I Were King” opens, at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. That favourite of every picture-goer, Ronald Colman, plays the lead as Francois Villon, swashbuckling poet and idol of the Paris mob. In open defiance of the King’s authority, he sacks royal warehouses to distribute food to the starving populace. He brings them treasures, this food looted from the royal storehouses; to a royal princess he brings love ballads, worshipping at her feet. As Villon, Ronald Coleman is poet, lover, statesman and soldier—the people’s hero who held all France in the palm of his hand for one unforgettable week, fend taught a prince.y how to love. “If I Were King” is an exceptional production. There is action, hatred and love, but all moulded into a film of incredible beauty. With Colman there is Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee in the stellar roles.

On the screen in this dashing romance, a medieval hero brings treasures to his beloved people and his beloved princess. On this page, too, treasures are offered by leading Masterton business houses—treasures of material value available to all. Just as the film, “If I Were King,” is packed with unforgettable scenes, so are the stores listed on this* page packed with glorious treasures. Start a treasure hunt now —through the wide range of stocks at Vivian Joseph’s, through the delightful goods of Seymour Gilding. Or build a treasure for the future by taking out an A.M.P. policy.