“The Girl from Paris” Lily Pons Vehicle

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 64, 17 March 1937, Page 11

“The Girl from Paris” Lily Pons Vehicle

PIVE LYRICS IN APPEALING ROMANTIC FEATURE (State: Screening Soon.) A moment before a Parisian mayor is about to pronounce Nicol Martin, (Lily Pons), noted French opera star, .and Paul De Vry. wealthy impressario, husband and wife, Nicol suddenly rebels and flees from the altar, leaving De Vry and her uncle standing aghast. Nicol and her faithful maid escape in her motor car to a country road where Nicol abandons her maid. Nicol is picked up as a hitch-hiker by Windy McLean (Gene Raymond), a handsome American. She tells Windy she is hungry, so they stop at a rustic Inn where a grape festival is in progress. Nicol joins in the festival spirit and sings a song. She ia fascinated by the loquacious American, but he is apparently impervious to her charms, and he tells her he and hi 9 orchestra are leaving for America the next day. Follows a long romantic story, with no end of novel situations, in the course of which Lily Pons sings another four Lyrics. James A. Fitzpatrick has completed the second and third of his group of feature pictures. These are “The Gaptain’s Table,” directed by and featuring Percy Marmont in a murder-mys-tery story on the high seas; and “Auld Lang Syne,” the life, poetry and of Robert Burns, which stars Andrew Cruikschank in the title role, and was directed by Mr Fitzpatrick himself.