"THE LOVE PARADE."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 11

"THE LOVE PARADE."

CRYSTAL PALACE NEXT WEEK. AN OUTSTANDING "TALKIE." Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Macdonald will be seen in "The Love Parade" at Crystal Palace Theatre next week. This picture, from a Btory by Ernst Vadja, directed by Ernest Lubitsch, and acted by a cast headed by the Frenchman, Chevalier, is the most elegant and effortless production which has come out of America sine© it started to produce talking films. It airy, frivolous, very piquant story; it. has music that is wholly charming; it has a positive "air" about it that leaves one longing for more, and still more, of this delightful stuff that seems to come so easily from the witty Chevalier and the leading lady. The story is all about a Count of the Sylvanian court who i# on diplomatio business in Paris. His Queen, Louise of . Sylvania, hears all about his affairs in Paris, and recalls him. When the Count returns to-court he meets the Queen for the first time, and, since she is bored and lonely, he elects to amuse her. It is 'all delightfully fresh, French, and funny, and when a Count such as Chevalier elects to amuse such a Queen as Jeanette Macdonald, one cannot expect these , serious things to flow smoothly. The subtleties and witticisms of this incomparable picture must be Been and heard to be appreciated. »° E * e t 0 ow smoothly. The subtleties and Wacdonald are Lupino t*ane, as the Counts vatet and Lilian Roth, as the Queen's maid. A« the gossipine servants, they ore perfect , illir roles The box plans for "The Love in ' w a t The Bristol Piano Company? where seats should be reserved without delay.