"LAND WITHOUT MUSIC."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 6

"LAND WITHOUT MUSIC."

Richard Tauber's Latest.

Glorious song numbers, sung as only Richard Tauber can sing them; comedy, crisp wise-cracking comedy put over as only Jimmy (Schnozzle) Durante can put it over; an enchanting love story set to beautiful melodies by Oscar Strauss, and a director whose genius is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic—"Land Without Music" has all these ingredients which go to the making of perfect entertainment, and film-goers will have an opportunity of seeing this picture next Friday, when it will be shown at the Majestic Theatre. The story is set in the middle of the nineteenth century in the Italian Duchy of Lucco, a music-loving country whose Princess Regent is at her wits' end to satisfy the demands of the Austrian Ambassador who has come to collect a national debt. As a last resource she banishes music from the land until the debt is paid. It is at this juncture that Mario Carlini, Lucco's world-famed tenor, arrives on the scene. He defies her ban, and she is furious, but an accidental meeting with the golden-voiced tenor proves him to be charming, and the Princess finds herself falling in love with the man \yho has presumed to flout her authority. Carlini incites the people to revolt, which they do, substituting fiddles and flutes for firearms, but ultimately a plan is evolved by which everyone, including the Princess, is made happy ever after. Diana Napier plays this important role opposite Richard Tauber, it being the first time that this charming couple have played together since their marriage, while June Clyde and Derrick de Marney; head a strong supporting cast. j