“Cavalcade” Season Is Now Drawing Nearer For City

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 5

“Cavalcade” Season Is Now Drawing Nearer For City

MOVIE PATRONS AWAIT NOEL COWARDS GREAT RELEASE

November 4 is gradually approaching and Palmerston North moviegoers, together with district fans, are anxiously awaiting the screening at the Regent theatre of Noel Coward’s remarkable play, “Cavalcade.”

Carefully analysed reports prove that “Cavalcade” is one of those rare motion pictures which draw to the kinema people not in tho habit of patronising places of amusement. It is not difficult, however, to appreciate why a film dealing as does this oue, with the lives of a typical English family and the struggles and triumphs through which they passed as a x>art of our great nation, from the year 3900 up to the present time, should grip the imagination of the varaying sections of the human family. There is entertainment in every foot for those wishing to bo entertained; there is thought-provoking material for those preferring intellectual satisfaction; there is something to make the patriot proud; something to feed the pacifists’ zeal for international peace; there aro lilting old songs and ballads of the bygone days, and tunes which tickle the oars of tho modern crowd. Above all there is such sweet sorrow.

Tho acting of all the leading artists is acknowledged everywhere as superb, and that again makes all Great Britain proud, for Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook/Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Ursula Jeans, Irene Browne, Mcrlo Tottenham, Tempo Pigott, and tho children in the film are all British.