NEXT EPISODE NEXT WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 10

NEXT EPISODE NEXT WEEK

When reading of Prince Carol and statecraft in Rumania, one is never quite sure how far Anthony Hope's hovels of Ruritania are based'on Balkan politics, and how far the Balkan politicians and royalties are trying to link. up to the characters in "The Prisoner of Zenda." Hitherto there has been quite a suitable mixture of romance and action. Prince Carol,1 Princess Helene, the boy King Michael, and Madame Lupescir have been moving on the stage to the accompaniment of applause and hisses from the gallery. The action has devolved principally on Carol. He staged a gal-lery-moving incident when he left England quite dramatically, and the theatricalism was heightened by his ruse which deceived the journalists. They were waiting in cars at the gate of M. Jonescu's Surrey home, when a car piled with luggage dashed out. Immediately other cars, containing a French detective, agents of other foreign Powers, and numerous reporters, started in pursuit and raced at sixty miles an hour as far as Hyde Park Corner. There the chase stopped, and the passenger in the leading car was found to be only a friend of the Prince. Meanwhile Carol had motored quietly to Dover. The latest event suggests, however, that- Rumania is now producing a motion-picture serial instead of romantic drama. . The story of newsboys (what more fitting heroes could there be in a serial?) breaking through tile police cordon' with the forbidden article on Prince Carol is highly suggestive of the motion-pic-ture. All that is needed to complete the resemblance is the announcement: /The next episode in 'Carol's Career/ or 'A Prince in Politics' will be shown next week."