AN ADOLPHE MENJOU COMEDY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19664, 6 July 1929, Page 7

AN ADOLPHE MENJOU COMEDY.

«A GENTLEMAN OF PARIS." EVERYBODY'S, MONDAY. Adolpe Menjou has returned to the local ■creen. At Everybody's Theatre next week "A Gentleman of Paris" will be screened; a Parisian comedy all about a certain gentleman, his valet, his valet's wife, and a few other women Shirley O'Hara and Arlette Marchal aslist Menjou in his peregrinations through this fllm, and Nicholas Soussanim provides a very powerful bit of dramatic acting as the valet. The picture is of the comedy persuasion, but no Menjou comedy yet has been pure laugh ter. Always there is a sharp breath of real life running through his alternately gay and cynical pictures. And "A Gentleman of Paris" i» no exception. The feminine roles are played by Shirley O'Hara. Arlette Marchal, Ivy Harris, and Lorraine Eddy. It waa in Charles Chaplin's flrßt effort as a director, "A Woman of Paris," that the then unknown Menjou had his first important role. Here, as a gentleman of Paris, he is seen in another razor-like story of real life, now humorous, now disastrous, always bright and cold and deliciously deft and clever. He does the cleverest comedies of men and women or any actor, and this picture is a superlative example of what Menjou can do. The second picture is "The Ware Case," in which Stew art Eome, the English actor, and Betty Carter have the leads. This play was written by G. P. Bancroft, a son of Sir Squire Bancroft, and has been hailed as one of the best murder mysteries ever wri'ten. Without an; terrifying thrills of the Edgar Wallace school, "The Ware Case" remains a consistently baffling and exciting plot, admirably acted by the entire cast. Mr Albert Bidgood has arranged a special musical score for the Select Orchestra: Overture, "Raymond" (Thomas); suites, "La Fete Chez Tbere°e (Goirand), "En Voyage" (Mouton), "Open Eoad" (Fletcher); selections, "Demon (Rubinstein), "Lortzing" (Urbach. "Pique Dame" (Tschaikowskv), "Legrndo" (Dvorak), "Neapolitan Scenes" (Massenet), "Dance of the Apprentices" (Wag-nsr), "Bad nase" (Herbert); entr'acte, "Whistle For Me" (Brocketl). Box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.