SPECTACULAR STAGE SHOW

Evening Star, Issue 20610, 9 October 1930, Page 7

SPECTACULAR STAGE SHOW

PRINCESS THEATRE'S NEXT CHANGE The brilliant lechnicolour production ‘ Show of Shows/ coming to-morrow to the Princess Theatre, is a medley of attractive and dazzling scenes. Featuring as it does a host of screen stars, all well known to picture goers, it is said to be worthy of a place well above the common run of talkie revues. It is a magnificent tribute to the producer’s art, and 'the. .reputation with which it has been endowed is fully justified. , , The curtain rises on one scintillating scene after another—each a show in itself, with its spectacular setting, hundreds of pretty chorus girls, and vivid and novel frocks. The prologue, featuring Hobart Bosworth, H. B. Warner, and William Courtenay, introduces the picture on rather a novel note, and tho show is on. Georges Carpentier, of boxing fame, sings ‘ If I Could Learn to Love/ aided by 7 Alice White and Patsy Ruth Miller, and 100 fymnasiura girls; Alyrna Ley and Nick iucas are the principals in a delightful Chinese scone, in which both voices are heard to good effect; ‘ A Bicycle Built for Two ’ gives a number of stars, including Douglas Fairbanks, juii., Lois Wilson, Jack Mulhall, , and Pauline Baron, the chance of providing a little farcical comedy; Richard Barthlemess introduces eight sister teams, all of them well-known players; Irene Bordoni, the inimitable Winnie Lightner, and Frank Fay are heard in solo items, and then John Barrymore gives a splendid interpretation of the famous soliloquy from Shakespeare’s ‘ Henry Vl.’