TIVOLI THEATRE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 3

TIVOLI THEATRE

<;kou<;i: aki.iss in "Voi.taihk" The popular KnL.-li.~li actor. Geor-.-Arliss. is the star of "Voltaire," which ;s boun: shown a! tin- new Tivoli Theatre. If "Voltaire" is not his me..'! slioec-siul P'ClUi'o, i>H.\ ■'Disraeli'" will Ik- placed bofore it •■ the film in which Arh.-'s. leapt a! oue'o to einineo.ee; and there will be loyal admirers of tnat first triumph who will agree that he has now. at last, equalled or surpassed it. Arhs.- is Mill Arliss. elderly but imontuiuorable; he still eames the weight of whatever piay he appears ,11 i,:>. ins own shoulders. I, ;• excellent entertainine-nt. VoMa'i'c'- cozening of the king. ] „;;;. XV.; Ins battle Willi llv--kin"'- eliM f minister, llu" Count do Sarnae. his enlistment of Madame Pomp; (io'ir on bis side; his presentation o! a play at once attacking the long and trying to win him over to ie- s:i|r m the vrry gardens of \ er-.-•:il!e-; and the final, la-! minute blull I)-.- which he causes tne einwnfall of d(- Sarnae are all excHlent cinema ;u,itenal. full of humour, of excitement, anel of emotion. The supporting programme ha- one e-xoeiient feature. •'Scrappy'-, Party." a cartoon m which various famous film stars, politicians, and sporting figure-' are' invitrel, in e-arie-ature. to a birthdiiv partv. It is extremely amusing There i- al-'o a good lle'V."" reel, a film of Appolan's Russian balalaika band, anel a new edition of the "Strange- ;i.-, it Seem.-" series.

KK(ii:\T THKATKK "1 WAS v yrv A nu.vi.iu More is U.ld n, 'I Wa.- , s ,. v ; which e ".v: i:< the second wcel; of m= s-a.-.,i; a! 'he IU-eiit Thiutre. H rceapiUilatc, the da:'iii? do- d> ..f Marine McKonua. v. ho was a helLiiaii nurse in a German hospital c!nri.'._' the war. Gaummit-Bnt;sh adapted the him from the won.an .-py ■-• own reminiscences, and Victor Savillc has directed a British picture that tins been acclaimed a triumph of realism. H'> ;l wartime ,-lery, drama'ic, full o! suspen.e. and ihnilnr- Th<- brilliant, east is luauel by MadeUmo Carroll. toe capable . nd ropular Ornish screen H rb. it Marshall, a favourite, Conrad Veidt. the Continental actor, famous in two continents; Sir Gerald fin Manner. o:v of Em-land's greatest sia w artists; and Kdmuud tlwrim whose character studiis are aI v. ays The people concerned are i,v,n- tneir hvev. n-it aciiim upor, the .-.a",e. Ueno tin. iiuni-jn reality of the whole producliou Th.e plot is Minple hot lull (T darme, and iicroi:ni: full of numan:tv and of the war at jl.- wur.-C. pi'ly for the wounded, GealTi lor me enuny.

civic tiii:\thi: noi.ni.i-: feati kk pro<;kammf. Ed:;ar Wallace's play-. hh«' Innovel.-, are clever arra: iitcmcnts ol ~tock plot.- and slock Munitions rather i|,; ( „ record- of ordinal ob.oi val inn ••Should a Doctor Toll?" at the C.w Theatre this week, is typical uf hd-rai Wallace. It is » lU ' r, '" l;llc in ', ;i ,mo cl.-tj.vo as a li.h'. -vol ~ .nterestme,. a,,d U is •ifcr the fa.-hion of melodrama. ' The plot .s simple A , „.. a .'ed to the son of a diotoi. in* l who happen, to have attended ihe "ill a few v.uis before. 'A hen sh> ■ -1 rav:d and had an illopiumate ehild. hns'to deeule whetherho slial 1,,-ci.k his professional oat! of s( ti i y ;in L -deaxour to saw hi. son ..1- : hul , hr: kno-As that th- c.rl wave! .-red A situation fortunale!> ..-,<,'«' m 'which the is forced to ; - «.|i the story in order H, -,ve a friend, ; .nfl th- doctor's proolom i- sop t .. H- -on in the be-t tradition. beat.- ~,,-■ ihc'betrnver. and all end- "oiippily. The best actiiiK if. by Norah Baring as "'The Mend tilm is farce Claude All,<tVr in ••That's My Wife.' Some of the dialogic is witty, seme or it is Mronclv flavoured, but there is a fanamount of rou«n and tumble fun of the practical jokins order There are £ ood farcical character studies of a retired and coutv majorv.'ith a gad-about vmms wife, and of s self-made \ orkihirc manufacturer who entertains the wife. Allistcr contrives: to mix thirr.'s for cvrrybodw