AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 21 March 1929, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. THE STUDENT PRJNOE, Who has not, been charmed by the lilting music of ‘‘The, Student Prince” —“Golden Days,” “Deep in My Heart” and the rousing “Student’s Drinking Song.” Never has anything exceeded tho wide and instantaneous success of this delightful musical play with its haunting music vivid glimpses of student hie at Old Heidelberg and its tender heart-stir-ring love story. And now Metro-Goldwyn.Mayer’s screen version, of “The Student J >l “- nee” is coming to the King’s Theatre tonigh-t ps th,c co-staning tin!iilffi)ph of Ramon Navarro and Norma Shear. cr * and the supreme, directorial vement if Ernest Lubitsch, Laid in the old university town of Heidelberg the picture reflects all the glamour, fascination and romance, of life among the students. Th© set. ings are authentic and breath-taking in their immensity, and form an exquisite background for one of the most beautiful stories ever told- -of the hopeless, passionate love of a police and a peasant girl. Ramo Navarro ondohvs the role of the prince with a brilliance antli charm that is peculiarly his own. Never has the star of “Ben Hue,” appeared to better advantage. Norma. Shearer plays the role of Kathie, and gives a performance that is outstanding- is screen annals.