EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19915, 30 April 1930, Page 17

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Leo Cirillo, who showed recently when he was on tour in Christchuroh that it was np effort for him to keep an audience in turn excited, dejeoted, and tremendously exhilarated/ has loit none of hit magnetism in the film "Mister Antonio," at Everybody's Theatre this week. In ' this talkie Carrillo again takes the part for which he It so suited. He ts an Italian who has lived for a short Bomber of years In New York, and who has acquired a very few American mannerisms, and a still smaller number of American colloquialisms. His came is adequate—Antonio Giovanni Raffaelo Garibaldi Mussolini Oavour Oamaradino Is ltd immensity—bat Tony, his American nickname, seems In its terseness to lit him still better. With all this weight npon him, he runs a flower shop in New York. Happy and care-free, be disclaims any regard for woman. A shrug of bis shoulders, and be dismUses wealth and social position. A smile, and, he captivates the hardest heart. His Ufa runs on simple, jlnes, and he has no desire that it should become otherwise. It does not seem in the nature of things, however, that he should he allowed to go on existing thus blissfully, so that a number of minor happenings conspire to lead up to the time when he is confronted with something which forces him to depart from his regular habits. This something has for Christian name June, and is a most disturbing influence. Virginia ValH's quiet beauty flts the part, and aets as a remarkably suit* able foil to Mister Antonio's Latin Impetuosity. Mister Antonio marries her. The preliminary programme this week is quite up to standard. A comedy, "A Day in the Life of a Man of Affairs" is the beet of the well-assorted numbers, and a Ufa sketch, "Oriental Motoring," has a very definite Interest for those who know anything of the way of automobiles in the back-blocks.