AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19466, 13 November 1928, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS.

"IP I WERE SINGLE." AN EXCELLENT COMEDY. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. A most excellent programme of comedies has been provided by the management of Everybody's Theatre for this week's entertainment, and for sheer delight they would be hard to beat, for the pictures are perfect in every way. The largo audience last evening simply revelled in the domestic situations, which were a feature of the leading fiim, "If I Were Single," starring Conrad and May JlcAvoy. This pa.r have not been seen beiore as co-artists, mt any lutuxe production will be a real treat, as they act together most excellently. The picture initiates its co-stars into roles as newly-weds, whose love is languishing after the fires of the first year's romance have cooled. Ted Howard loves his wife May, but he still carries on a flirtation with Joan. May gave Teddy a special lighter. During hiß flirtations he gives his present to Joa.i, who departs with it. The fat is in the fire, for when May sees he hasn't got it, Teddy tries to make up extraordinary excuses. Joan calls on May, and inadvertently drops her bag, the lighter falling out on the floor. Teddy gets the lighter back, and the quarrel is patched up, but Joan and Teddy stiil "carry on." • May flirts with her piano teacher, and this so enrages Teddy that he leaves the house. May insists that Claude shall take her for a car ride, and as they are about to enter Howard's car, Ted and Joan come towards the garage. Claude forces May to get in the back seat and hide, whilst Ted takes the wheel. The car becomes stuck in a bog,,and whilst endeavouring to get it out, hold-up men arrive, and order everyone out of the car. Ted is so amazed to find May and Claude there that he pays no attention to the hold-up. However, a passing- milkman takes them home, and they decide that "flirting" doesn't pay, and all is happiness once more. "Dancing Vienna" is another feature film of a very high standard, and is a delightful comedy romance of the European stage that has as its basis the contrast between jazz and waltz time as applied to the modern audience. Throughout the film dancing is well to the fore, especially tho olue Danube." The story hingeß on the sudden rise to fame of a European operatic star. She is the daughter of a one-time famous stage star, and seeks to follow in her mother s footsteps. She meets an American youth, who has been sent to Vienna to rebuild his father's mansion, which has fallen into disrepair. • He is jazz mad, and he converts Fritzi to this method of dancing, and at a big revue, entitled "Dancing Vienna, she makes such a hit that she becomes famous, and having attained her ambition, she marlies her Johnny. Lya Mara, in the role of Fritzi, the dancing girl, is perfect and irresistible, especially' in the big revue scenes, and Ben Lyon as Johnny, the American, is quite at home with his saxophone ana jazzing parner. Mr Bidgood's orchestra ,played an excellent programme of music, including overture, "Morning. Noon, and Nieht ' (Suppe), suites, "Gipsy Pieces" (° oate ='' /w „^'f.' nonne" (Becce), "Dale Dances" (Wood , selections. "Princess Charming }™™*J>>. waltz, "Sounds from Vienna ' (Strauss), and entr'acte, "Mignonette" (Nicholls).