RIVOLI THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 5

RIVOLI THEATRE.

"Folies Bergere" and "The Crusades."

Maurice Chevalier sings five gay song hits in "Folies Bergere,' Darryl a ■ Zanuck's new Twentieth Century screen: musical extravaganza coming to the Rivoli Theatre tomorrow. The successful team of Jack Stern and Jack Meskill turned out "Rhythm of the Rain," "I was Lucky,". "Au Revoir, L'Amour," and "Singing a Happy Song," while Harold Adamson and Burton Lane, who wrote Stormy Weather," collaborated on "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth. In the first two numbers Chevalier is accompanied by Ann Sothern, who shares feminine honours with the lovely Merle Oberon. Chevalier also sings one chorus of the memorable "Valentina." The lavish dance and musical scenes featuring Hollywood s loveliest dancing girls, are all staged in the sensational manner for which tne Folies Bergere is internationally renowned. The most spectacular production by the world's greatest, maker of spectacles, Cecil B. DeMille's "The Crusades," will be the other big attraction. DeMille, who made 'The Ten Commandments," "The King of Kings," "The Sign of the Cross, "Cleopatra," and other great screen spectacles, has outdone even himself in his newest Paramount film. Ihis virile story of the attempt to recapture the Holy Land from the Saracens is filmed on an overwhelming scale, with a cast of thousands, and backgrounds that set a new standard even for Hollywood. The cast, which includes dozens of motion-picture stars, is headed by Loretta Young and Henry Wikoxon. With them appear lan Keith, Katherme DeMille, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, C. Henry Goddon, George Barbicr, Montagu Love, Hobart Bosworth, William Farnum, Lumsden Hare, Pedro De Cordoba, and some 10,000 others who appear as warriors in the great battle scenes.