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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 7 April 27, 1938

"Marie Walewska"

"Marie Walewska"

This aims low but, like the old slient films, it has its own kind of honesty, the stock situations being rammed home with an infectious enthusiasm and persistence. Boyer walks off with the honours, but only because he has all the chances. Garbo expresses a few routine emotions with flawless delicacy and taste. For the rest, all I remember is much earnest rattling of military boots on palace floors, and an unconvincing attempt to show that all the little corporal was out for was world peace. Most of the way home I was trying, with out success, to find out what made me stay till the end. But I did stay, and so will you.—N.U.F.C.