POLICE CHARGE CROWDS
DISORDER AT PREMIERE Mounted police charged excited crowds that gathered in Broadway outside the Astor Theatre, for the first performance of Ernst Lubitsch's magnificently produced film version of "The Merry Widow," with Mr. Maurice Chevalier and Miss Jeanette Macdonald in the leading parts. The trouble was caused through hundreds of hero-worshippers fighting to get near enough to obtain autographs of noted arrivals at the theatre. Nearly every New York film critic is filled with enthusiasm for the "talkie" rendering of the operetta, of which Mr. John Gilbert and Miss Mae Murray made a film in the days of silent pictures. With Franz Lehar.'s music and the familiar song of the piece, to say nothing of the endless resource of Mr. Lubitsch, it would have been difficult not to produce an excellent entertainment. Miss Macdonald sings extraordinarily well, and Mr. Chevalier, if his dancing is somewhat inadequate, provides all the charm needed for such a production.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 16 (Supplement)
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158POLICE CHARGE CROWDS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 16 (Supplement)
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