AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 8 September 1930, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

ST. JAMES* THEATRE. "IS EVERYBODY HAPPY?" A remarkable story of a, Hungarian violinist's rise to fame as the conductor of olio of America's famous dauce bands is contained iu "la Everybody Happy? - ' a "Warner Bro3. uuc! Yitaphone talkie, which opened a. season at St. James' Theatre on Saturday night. Tne story typifies the spirit of America.— the porfervid worship cf the "hot rlarin.jt,' ill© stixoDbottt, rhythm, and nignt lifo. Comins to America from Budapest, with a violin presented to his father by the Emperor, a young man eeeks work in a symphony orchestra. The classics have long ago lost their appeal and tho big monoy lies in jruz, therefore he mu3t tow to the popular taste. Kc> pawns Lis violin for a sot of jazz instruments and, with the aid <>S a charming and iniiuentia.l yc.unr; lady, climbs rapidly to success. Hi's father is enraged at his musical treael'erv and leaves horn.i. The young man's Hungarian sweetheart, v.ho has made good in a"beauty chorus, has forsaken him, but returns when she hears of his fame. In lite me&ntiiiia ho has fallen in love with his pretty benefactor, and a dramatic moment cimoa when the band is playing ot a bonofit concert on Christinas Day and the lost father is discovered iu the guise of a stagohrnd. Father and son become reconciled, the love ttory ends satisfactorily, the bi'J doors of the dinins-rooro open, and the Christmas surprise arranged by the naothet turns out to be the jfresenco ol tbo lull band at the table, and the answer ia Riven to the question: Everybody is happy! The picture is one of the finest antidotes to that ov.tly-imnc! depression, "the blues,'' find goc3 v.ith a swing from curtain to curtain.