Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6835, 16 April 1932, Page 3

Tivoli

ELISSA .LAND! IN ‘'WICKED” Teeming over ■with human touches, (ho Fox drama, “Wicked,” with Elissa Landi in the starring role, is now holding audiences spellbound at the Tivoli theatre, where it is playing its local engagement. Outstanding is the dramatic work of Miss Landi, the brilliant and beautiful young English actress, who came to the screen with an enviable record as a European star of both stage and screen. Prior to signing with Fox

Films, Miss Landi was internationally acclaimed for her work, and much was expected of her. That slur is everything the most enthusiastic critie claimed she was she definitely proves in “•Wicked.” Her portrayal of the young and trustful wife, disillusioned shortly after her honeymoon, when she discovers her husband to be a clever bank robber rather than the industrious bank clerk he pretended to be, is one of the screen's finest dramatic contributions to date. Victor McLagl.cn, who made screen history with his impersonation of Captain Flagg in "V\ hat Price Glory?” and “The Cock-eyed World,” is another player who gives a splendid and intelligent performance in an extremely difficult role. He is the leading male player of “Wicked.” Una Merkel, who was last seen in Janet Gaynor’s sensational hit, "'Daddy Longings,is also among the featured players, as aro Theodore von Eltz and Allan Dinchart, late of the New York stage, who made his talking picture debut in Fox's '“The Brat.”