Notorious Novel

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7006, 16 November 1932, Page 5

Notorious Novel

SUBJECT FOR NEW FILM EMIL JANNINGS’ PART.

Emil Jannings’ next starring picture is to be a version of a notorious French novel, which, though several efforts have been made to place it on tho English market in book form, is regarded as too daring to uo translatable.

The novel is "The Adventures of King Pausole,” by Pierre Louys, author of tho equally notorious "Aphrodite" and other decadent studies of eroticism. Its central figure is a libertinous old monarch of a fantastic kingdom where women under 30 years of age are compelled to remain nude in order that the public may "benefit" by their beauty. A subsidiary character is a farcical English Protestant clergyman whose efforts to impose conventional ideas of decency upon King Pausole’s subjects are clidiculed.

night or Never.’. ‘To-night or Never’ was cheered by a preview audience; that in itself is unusual. Comments of the patrons strolling out indicated that they considered the 3how better than ‘The Trespasser’ and incomparably superior to ‘lndiscreet.’ ”

Between pictures Kay Francis spends her time boating in tho Pacific with her husband, Kenneth McKenna, prominent director. Kay acts as chief cook and bottlewashcr, while her husband navigates their thirty-five foot yacht.