CRYSTAL PALACE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 20

CRYSTAL PALACE.

The picture now showing at the Crystal Palace Theatre is "The Song of the Plame." It is a tale of Russia in the days before the Revolution. MAURICE CHEVALIER IN "THE BIG POND." *Wo have just been informed, X-iur medium of the English cables, of the tremendous sensation caused by the appearance of Maurice Chevalier in London last week. Next in importance to his personal appear* ance on the stage will be his appearance on the screen at the Crystal Palace on Monday next in his latest all-talking romantic comedy, "The Big: Pond." Chevalier is a great artist with a wonderful personality, and it is no wonder that he is such a popular favourite, particularly among the fair sex. In "The Big Pond'* the versatile Chevalier plays a new kind of role, that of a penniless French nobleman who attempts to mix money-making with love-making, and, of course, the latter he doss to perfection He sings a number of new songs in his own irrepressible style; two, in particular, "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" and "Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight, " are bound to become popular in Christchurch. Chovalfer scores the biggest success of his meteoric career in "The Big Pond." The box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano Company.