STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1941, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

“SO ENDS OUR NIGHT.” ,“So Ends Our Night,” which will be shown tonight at the State Theatre, from its biggest moments —Steiner’s ghastly revenge and death —to its smallest —the young lovers’ stolen moments of happiness—there is not a foot of film that does not contribute toward building up a film that deserves to be ranked among the great. Margaret Sullavan, as the young Jewish girl hounded from her home and her university studies in Berlin, has played no finer part, unless it was her similar role in “The Mortal Storm.” Glen Ford, a new face, is her young lover, an actor who, in his first big role, seemed to epitomise the tragic, troubled youth of Europe. Fredric March regains his place among stars for his portrayal of Steiner, the former German officer whose life was crushed and ruined in the rise of the Nazi scum. Anna Sten has a small part, but she handles it with greater skill than she .ever handled her starring parts of the past. “So Ends Our Night” takes the audience across the face of a tottering Europe when the worm was already in the apple. There was war then—but only in Spain and China and Abyssinia. But the mobs were already milling and names and secrets were being wrung from decent citizens with the knout and the truncheon. The stage was set and ready for September, 1939, for Mr Chamberlain’s farewell to dreams and his swan song: “All that I have worked for has now crumbled into ruin.”