WORLD-FAMOUS FILM "MAYERLING" FOR EARLY SCREENING IN N.Z.

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 32, 20 January 1939, Page 19

WORLD-FAMOUS FILM "MAYERLING" FOR EARLY SCREENING IN N.Z.

She : ee i & . ; time ago; the "Retord" announced the: probability .of the world-famous. French film, "Mayerting;"" being. secured for screening in. New. -Zealand.. This rumour: has now been definitely con‘firmed. Metropolitan Films, a newly-formed. company..in New. Zea- " land. for the handling of. carefully-selected high-grade pictures, has secured: the franchise for "Mayerling" in this country and Australia. "Mayerling" has: a remarkable record. It has created box-office. ‘records in many parts of the world, being almost as great:a success in England and America as in its native France. It was on the strength of this one picture that Danielle Darrieux was signed. up, ona very large salary, to make pictures in Hollywood for Universal, her first appearance-being in the comedy "The- Rage: of Paris." But. in "Mayerting," the film which won her world-wide acclaim, Danielle Darrieux: has the highly. dramatic role ofthe. Baroness: Marie Vetsera, whose love affair with the- Archduke Rudolph. of. Austria culminated in the mysterious tragedy. of. the Habshurg hunting-lodge atMayerling. Charles Boyer appears opposite. her in the film as. Rudolph, Critics of "Mayerting" praise the direction of the picture and the ‘lavish magnificence of the Viennese settings almost as highly as the superb performances of the: stans. Undoubtedly: this.is a picture which many New Zealand picturegoers will await with great interest. Metropolitan Films. are to be congratulated: on their:-enterprise,. It is possible that."Un Carnet de _ Bal" will, be another coming attraction.