PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.” High drama, pathos, excitement and suspense are woven into Walt Disney’s feature-length picture, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which begins to-day at the Plaza Theatre. In the seven-reel technicolour picture Snow White’s beautiful but vain and wicked Queen consults her eerie magic mirror to find who is the fairest in the land. When the mirror replies “Snow White,” the Queen, retreats to her secret dungeons at the bottom of the castle, through which a mysterious river flows. Here she brews magic potions and turns herself into an old witch, to an accompaniment of lightning and crashing thunder. She disguises herself thus so that she may go to Snow White living in the cottage of the seven dwarfs, and, posing as an old peddler woman, induce her to bite into a poisoned apple. The dwarfs, discovering the Queen at their cottage, chase her through a blinding thunder amd rain storm up into mountain fastnesses, where, just as she is about to roll a boulder down on them, a bolt nf lightning sends her toppling over a ciiff into oblivion. The dwarfs, believing Snow White dead, build a glass collin for her so that they may still look upon her beauty. They place it in a flower-laden bower in the woods, where they and the small birds and animals take turns keeping watch over it. Romance comes riding along soon, however, in the person of a handsome young Prince, long in love / with Snow White. He kisses her, breaks the spell of the magic apple, and the two ride away to lasting happiness, with Snow White promising to return to visit her forest friends from time to time.