AT THE EMPIRE.

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 12

AT THE EMPIRE.

COMMENCING TO?NIGHT. “THE LONE WOLF IN PARIS.” Meet the princess who wants to be a crook—and the crook who’s her Prince Charming. They are important personages in the chief offering at the Empire Theatre to-night, in the Columbia picture, “The Lone Wolf in Paris,” an exciting and absorbing story of the underworld in France’s capital city. Francis Lederer, Walter Kingsford, and Frances Drake are in the stellar roles, as Michael Lanyard, Grand Duke Gregor, and Themia, and the trio are excellently cast, as patrons will quickly concede. After spending years gaining an international reputation as the most renowned and colourful jewel thief in all the world, Michael Lanyard (Frances Lederer), the Lone Wolf of Europe, comes to Paris to reform and settle down at the fashionable hotel Napolean. Reluctantly, Fromont (Maurice Cass), the manager, allows him to stay after reading testimonial letters Lanyard has from various police officials, and then returns to his strange hobby of watching pot ants perform in a miniature ant castle. Lanyard hasn’t been in the hotel five minutes before things begin to happen.