TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 14

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

“MARQUIS PREFERRED”

With his suave and sophisticated performances, Adolphe Menjou has built a popular character for the screen. His latest production, “Marquis Preferred,” is now at the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatre. The story concerns a bankrupt nobleman, who agrees to let his tailor, his valet, and his chef And him a wealthy wife. Just as they have accomplished this feat, the marquis falls in love with a penniless girl, and his efforts to reconcile his love with his promise form an amusing theme. Dazed by the collapse of his romance, the marquis agrees to go through with the marriage to the wealthy girl, but he is careful to inform them that it is a matter of business only. Immediately after the wedding, prior to which the marquis had has his debts paid by the girl’s father, he leaves his wife, telling her she can get a divorce on the grounds of desertion. A year later he is a clerk in a bookshop, happily married to his former love. Nora Lane and Chester Conklin are prominent members of the cast.

A sensational story, original in development and superb in interpretation, makes “Eileen of the Trees,” the second feature on both programmes, a picture that will appeal to everyone. At the Tivoli Theatre, Miss M. Anderson’s orchestra plays “The Maids of Japan” for the overture, and Hie following selections: “Serenade” (Chaminade), “Mignon” (Thomas), “Romance d’Amour (Arensky); “Socturno” (Mendelssohn); "Three Dances” (Cyril Scott) ; ‘“Suite Pastorale” (Ansell); “Musette” (Sibelius); “Woodland Pictures” (Fletcher); ‘“Suite Poetique” (Bloch).

ANOTHER MEXICAN “FIND”

BLANCHE ADELE STARRED British International Pictures, England’s biggest film producing organisation, is reputed for the bright young actors that appear in its productions. The latest newcomer to the ranks of their players is the beautiful young Mexican girl, Blanche Adele, who after a long struggle to become a star, is to be featured opposite William Freshman in “Mary Was Love.” She was born in Mexico in 1908, and there went to the same school as Delores Del Rio. Upon finishing her education she went to England and became the pupil of the Fay Compton School of Dramatic Art. Her struggle to stardom was not without disappointments. Fay Compton, who saw in her an actress of great promise, arranged for her to have an interview with the 8.1. P. director, Manning Haynes, but through a mistake the interview never eventuated. It was quite an accident when one day she bumped him in the street, and asked him if he was the famous director. Over a cup of coffee an arrangement was made and Blanche was engaged to appear as the leading lady in his new film, which, upon completion, will be released by Cinema Art Films throughout Australia and the Dominion,