RIVOLI THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 7

RIVOLI THEATRE.

T^yo Excellent Films.

. Splendid in every sense of the.mean-} mg, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lavish! musical offering,. "Maytime" ,is the.; coming attraction.at the Rivoli Theatre, with Jeanette MacDoriald' and Nelsori; Eddy in the.starring roles.. A description of the original th^riie would, be superfluous to veterans of the theatre, but it may be written here1 without fear of contradiction that the; studio -has gone far, and beyond any ;beauty whichthe stage attained. -.. "Maytime" was- a musical piece of. gorgeous proportions when Rida' Johnson' Young's play'was on the boards arid it closely approaches the status of a musical-masterpiece on the screen... The .skilful adaptation was made by Noel Larigley. ;Thb songs were written by ; Sigmund Romberg, composer of the original Broadway score, ■; and also "; by Herbert Stothart, who has composed the first:film operetta, "Czaritza," which provides a lovely sequence .in ".the"-.picture;. In.the supporting cast of "Maytime" Johri Barrymore plays a-picturesque role as the temperamental impresario. ; Itt love with Nelson Eddy, a young singer, Jeanette. Mac Donald, an opera. bstar,! actuated by a mistaken sense; of duty, marries John -Barrymore, the impresario, to- whom she-owes her,' career.' When circumstances bring her, arid the singer together again, they realise that their love is stronger than before. Mad with insane jealousy the husband kills the singer. The tragedy ansAvers the problem of the younger girl Who is drawn between • a choice f of- love and a career. Political-racketeering and social climbing; do not mix, Akim Tamiyoff finds out,, in his, newest /drama," "Darigerous '; to .Know" which 'vail- be the supporting, film. When he' throws off.his lifelorig' mentor, Anna-May "Wong, for a beautiful member of the country'club' set, Gail ; Patrick, Tariiiroff; knots' ;;the rope that later strangles: him in Its noose. Others in, the cast are Lloyd Nolan, Roscoe- Karris, and Hall;