REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO.” Published in 1938 Rachel Field’s biographical novel “All This and Heaven Too” achieved immediate and remarkable success and has run through many editions. It has been seized upon by Warner Brothers for a dramatic and brilliant picturisation, with Bette Davis and Charles Boyer in the leading roles and a splendid cast in support. The story is that of Rachel Field’s owr great-aunt from the time when, as a young girl, with a past somewhat shrouded in mystery, she left temporary refuge in England to return to France, her birthplace, there to become governess in the house of the Due de Praslin. a royalist close to King Louis Philippe, in the years just before the Due’s suicidal death in 1847, ; death that ended but did not wholly solve the Praslin murder mystery in which the Due’s own wife, a neurotic wildly passionate Corsican, was the victim. The screen story covers the nine intensely dramatic years in the I Praslin household as governess to four I children who loved her more deeply I than they did their strange mother, up } through the murder trial in which she was tragically involved, to her arrival in New York after her exoneration. In the featured cast of the film, supporting the two stars are Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil, Virginia, Weiciler, Henry Daniell, Walter Hampden, Henry Davenport, George Colouris, Helen Westley, June Lockhart, Montague Love, Janet Beecher, Ann Todd and Richard Nichols. The film will be screened at the Regent Theatre tonight.