ALFREDTON TALKIES
I TOMORROW'S ATTRACTION. A European frontier ( town on the edge of no-man’s-land, with two mighty nations locked in a life-and-cieath conflict—that's the spectacular setting for the new film drama. "Hotel Imperial," which comes tomorrow io Alfredton, starring Isa Miranda and Ray Milland with Reginald Owen. Miranda who has long been a reigning favourite throughout Europe, makes her bow in an intensely dramatic role, as a fiery international beauty who goes to the "Hotel Imperial" to avenge her sister's betrayal and finds iove just as the world is about to go smash. Playing prominent supporting roles are Reginald Owen, as a blustering and eccentric Russian general. Gene Lockhart, as a genial hotelkeeper. and J. Carrol Naish. playing an arch-spy and traitor. The Don Cossack Male Chorus —one of the world's oest-liked vocal groups—makes its first screen appearance since "Maylime." The chorus was originally formed of Russian Cossacks who had become interned in Turkey during the Russian Revolution.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1940, Page 7
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158ALFREDTON TALKIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1940, Page 7
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