AN ADOLPHE MENJOU COMEDY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19665, 8 July 1929, Page 6

AN ADOLPHE MENJOU COMEDY.

! <*A GENTLEMAN OP PARIS." EVERYBODY'S, MONDAY. Adolpe Menjou has returned to the local screen. At Everybody's Theatre nest week "A Gentleman of Paris" will be screened, ■ Parisian comedy all about a certain gentleman, his valet, his valet's wife, and a few other women Shirley O'Hara and Arlette Marchal assist Menjou in his peregrinations through this film, and Nicholas Soussanim provides a very powerful bit of dramatic acting as the valet. The picture is of the comedy persuasion, but no ilenjou comedy yet has been pure laughter. Always there is a sharp breath of real life running through his alternately gay and cynical pictures. And "A Gentleman of Paris" is no exception. The feminine roles are played by Shirley O'Hara, Arlette Marchal, Ivy Harris, and Lorraine Eddy. It was in Charles Chaplin's first 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 _of any actor, and this picture is a superlative example of what Menjou can do. The second picture is "The House of Hoards," a weird and wonderful mystery comedy, in which Chester Conkiin .arid Louise Fazenda, have the leads and James Ford and Thelma Todd play the romantic parts. The pictura concerns a blue diamond, a miserly mystic, an antique shop, and some unscrupulous characters, but the search for the diamond is conducted undet strictly hilarious circumstances. Conkiin and Miss Fazenda, playing bachelor brother and epinster sister, are summoned to New York to take possession of a fortune, and their stay proves highly exciting and nerve-racking. "The House of Horrors" is a thrilling comedy. Mr Albert Bidgood has arranged the following musical programme for the Select Orchestra:—Overture, "Raymond" (Thomas); suites. "La Fete chez Thoreae" (Gairand), "En Voyage" (Mouton), "Open Road" 'Fletcher); selections, "Demon" (Rubinsteinl "Pique Dame" (Tschaikowsky), "Legende" (Dvorak), "Neapolitan Scenes" (Massenet', "Dance of the Apprentices" (Wagner), "Badinage" (Herbert); entr'acte, "Whistle for Me" (Brockett). Bos plans are at The Bristol Piano Compasy, where seats may be reserved.