IN BRITISH TALKIE

Evening Star, Issue 21960, 21 February 1935, Page 6

IN BRITISH TALKIE

BEBE DANIELS AS MUSICAL COMEDY STAR In her first British talkie Bcbe Daniels is even more radiant than ever in ‘ The Song Yon Gave Me,’ which Opens to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Bebe scores a personal success as Mitzi Hansen, famous musical comedy star, and is supported by Victor Varconi, another recruit to the British screen froni Hollywood. An engaging story spun in a disarming manner, full of charm and whimsical gaiety, provides an ideal setting for Bebe Daniels’s first British picture. Mon revolve around Mitzi like planets round the sun, but there is just one man who remains impervious to her charms, and that js the man she loves. He publicly insults her in a night club and then applies for a job as her secretary. She takes him into her service and her heart, but all ■t'

he gives her is a song. He disappears at 9 every evening to return at 11, but Mitzi learns of his love for her from the woman he visited. Does Mitzi lose her secretary or gain a husband? To solve these mysteries and enjoy an hour and a-half’s super-entertainment one must see ‘ The Song You Gave Me.’ Miss Daniels gives a remarkable performance, and renders in her own delightful. manner two song numbers, 1 The Captain of the Guard ’ and ‘ The Song You Gave Me,’ which will in a short space of time be on everyone’s lips. Victor Varconi gives a sterling performance as the humble but adoring secretary who becomes ensnared in Hebe's web of charm, and Frederick Lloyd, Lester Matthews, and Claude Hulbert, names well known to filmgoers, also figure prominently in the love stakes as three of Hebe's devoted cavaliers. ‘ Pnthetone Varieties,’ ‘ Sketchy Skiing,’ and 1 Fit To Boil ’ are three of the excellent films on the supporting programme.