BRILLIANT SATIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 5

BRILLIANT SATIRE.

IN NEW EMBASSY FILM. Satire seems to be the keynote of enjovment in the pleasing romantic melodrama set to •music/' which is to be released at the Embassy Theatre to-mor-row, replacing the current long-run "Do'dsworth." The second and final effort of the Pickford-Lasky producing organisation, "The Gav Desperado" pokes none too gentle but thoroughly amusing fun at such" ridiculous but firm-rooted cinematic institutions as the immaculate Mecian Mexican cowboy and the international grand opera star who rises from the common herd to the peak of fameMetropolitan Opera Company, New York.

Although Leo Carilio contributes to it one of his rousing characterisations of a bad man from south of the Rio Grande, with the story affording plenty of outlet for his versatile villainy and rousing comedy, melodrama is not quite the word to describe this film. It is melodrama set to music and music set to melodrama. It boasts the fine singing voice of Kino Martini, to whom justice was not done in

"Here's to Romance," his debut on the screen. He sings "Celeste Aida," "The World is Mine," "Ardos Mi Terra/ 5 "Cielita Lindo," "Lamento Gitano" and

"Estrellita." Ida Lupino, lovely English. ingenue seen in several recent successes, has the feminine lead, with Leo Carrillo as third star.