MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 62, 10 September 1936, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"The King Steps Out."

To the hauntingly beautiful melodies of Fritz Kreisler music, some • new, some mellowed by the passing years, Grace Moore sings again of love. Tomorrow, at the Majestic Theatre, her new Columbia picture, "The King Steps Out," a proud successor to the "One Night of Love" and "Love Me Forever," which so endeared her to the hearts of the world, will be presented. This time there is no backstage story, no climb to the Metropolitan, but a charming tale of a royal romance in Imperial Austria. It is fitting that Miss Moore's third film should dash so wildly in the opposite direction of the other two. The result is a lyric love story of rare loveliness. When a love story is involved there must be a lover, and in that enviable role one finds Franchot Tone as a reckless, merry monarch, Emperor Francis Josef. Keeping race with so-talented and glaiporous a star as Grace Moore is no mean job, but Tone does exceedingly well. A grand performance is also contributed by the faultless Walter Connolly, as Duke Max of Bavaria. Excellent, too, are Raymond Walburn, Victor Jory, Elisabeth Risdon, Nana Bryant, and Frieda Inescourt in important roles. But of course it is "a Grace Moore picture"; this young lady gets more beautiful as months go on, and her voice has never been more glorious. Among the Kreisler compositions that Miss Moore sings in "The King Steps Cut" are "Stars in My Eyes," "Learn How to Lose," and "The End Begins."