FIRST NATIONAL EPIC AT KING’S

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 499, 22 July 1932, Page 8

FIRST NATIONAL EPIC AT KING’S

“VIENNESE NIGHTS” A FILM OF CHARM AND JOYOUSNESS MUSIC DRAMA OF THE ENCHANTED CITY “Viennese Nights,” a First National production, at the King’s to. night. The Cast. Fisa, Girl of Dreams Vivienne Segal Franz, Officer She Marries: Walter Pidgeon. Otto, Poor Musician She Loves: Al. exander Gray. I Tocher, Her Father, a Cobbler: Jean Hersholt. Ous, Otto’s Practical Pal: Pert Roach. Gretl, Otto’s Giggling Friend: Louise Fazenda. Barbara, Elsa’s Grand-daughter: Alice Day. Mary, Girl of Vienna; June Pursell. Bill, Viennese Youth: Milton Douglas. The indefinable charm and joyous, ness of Vienna, the ancient and glamorous capital, is caught and preserved in “Viennese Nights,” the Warner Brothers' First National screen romance, which is at the King’s. For some reason, gaiety seems to have been a little more natural theie than elsewhere, youth a little more carefree, music a bit more tender. Songs sing themselves mpre easily in such an iatmosphere and yjoung Icve dares more in its kindly environs.

All of these intangible things Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammer, stein IT., have written into the haunting romance. Romberg spent his own youth in Vienna, and his love for it is sincere. “Viennese Nights” is famous alike for its glorious musical settings, the colour photography that adds sc greatly to the beauty of the production and the featured cast that in. dudes Walter Pidgeon, Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray, Jean Hers holt, Bert Roach, June Pursell, Alice Day! I-otti Hoder and numerous others. Alan Crosland directed.