"DREAM OF LOVE."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19724, 14 September 1929, Page 12

"DREAM OF LOVE."

I ♦ J I JOAN CRAWFORD AND NILS j ASTHER. j D.VKftYSODY'S, MONDAY.. 1 IKj .story oi Adrienne Leoouvreai and j Maunti Sax ia a true one, and in the day* of Sara Bernhardt a foremost dramatist of the time wrote, round it a play tor the great J Frenchwoman. Bernhardt played it under J ito title of "Adnenno Lecouvrsur," but when the screen titles it "Dream of Love it loses nothing- This "picture, from the MetroGoldwvn studios, will bo presented at bvorybodv's" Theatre next week. In the role ot 'Adrienne is Joan Crawford, and Sax is playea 1 by Nits Aether. When this story was tirst I o'tauiatiaed Sax was, for dramatic purposes, w-iitcn in us a prince- of the blood; and there i« a, reason of ''Adrienne" becoming I pevilmwlv near ona of the royal tragedies. | lJut not'eo in tint tale- Even in its ending I it is refreshingly unlike those it her stories I of prince and commoner, and in the body of i the play, wha'. with the princo losing his ir.ron* utter the World War ("Dream of Love" i« a modernised version of the original;, and being obliged to take it back us.in, the v. hole thin L ; becomes decisively mteieslioir. at the same time never losing ■its primary lomanUo appeal. Adrienne i* a Kinpy who fascinates the prince; and -when the princa is obliged to dismiss her, his aide ruthoi- bungles things by enclosing in the royal note of farewell a banknote. The gipsy Lcroicu t famous actress in i'sris; the pr;n'*c loses his fhrone, and it is only thus far that the reader can spiess what, happens. After that, the story of Adrienne and Maurice ih unusual, poignant, and successful at the siituo time. T-he tteeond picture is "Tie. Gallant liiwsar," something quite near a merry "tittle comedy for Ivor Xovello and Evelyn Holt. Do-llisjios and the Blue Danube and laughter in Vienna, that is "The Gallant Hussar," a ;rai.e/ul and amusing story act«d with much trTnrve*i:enco by Kovollo. Mr Albert Bldgood will conduct the S-clet-.t Orchestra in the fol- ' lowing musical progrnmu<e: —Overture, "Desert Song" (Rqatbert;)* "Kurnl Wedding" (GoMmaiki; Miites, "Pittpresque" (Massenet), "Prayer ot the Sword" (Gaulier), 'By the Lake of Geneva" (BQndot); selections, "A Night in Venice'.' (Straussl, ."The Red ilirssar" (Rolomanl, "Gipsy Love" (Lobar), "I'll Always be in Ixive" (Conrad), "Drawn ol .Love'* (Listtj) "Fox Movietone Follies" (arranged'- ''''BiJijfood), "Jewels of the Madanna" (Ferrari'); foy-trdts, "Lazy Bones" fWhitei, "Walking wi*h Susie" (Conrad), "The Breakaway'*iComrii'd)-. entr'acte, "Polish Dance" (Scharwenlfa*. Box plans ar9 at Th« Bri»tnl Piano Company, where sea + s may be reserved.