EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17756, 28 January 1926, Page 5

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

‘‘Her Sister From Paris,” a light comedy film starring Constance Talmadge. heads the programme at Everybody’s Theatre. With its faithful Viennese setting, it appears to have absorbed something of the traditional Viennese gaiety. The principals in the piece are a Viennese novelist and his wife. The husband, a fellow of volatile temperament, is made an exacting companion through complete absorption in his work. The city does not allure him. and he is content to toil away, noting betimes with chagrin and disappointment that his wife is becoming frumpy. No longer does she take pains to appear attractive to him, and the result is that love flies from the window. After a violent quarrel the wife decides that the situation has become unendurable, so she resolves to return home to mother. A mutual friend from -the British Embassy calls upon them just at the time when the dissolution is being completed. He bids the husband bear up and while they are supporting each other a letter arrives from Paris. It is from the wife’s sister, a noted dancer, who is to give special performances in Vienna. The two men decide to have a night out and see the opening dance recital. In the meantime, however, the sisters have met, and the Parisian girl soon diagnoses the cause of the domestic trouble in her sister’s home. Renovation is the only remedy. The quiet wife begins the process right away, under the direction of the dancer. She is shingled and brightened generally, and her wardrobe is refurnished. It is now that the complications begin. The two girls are. doubles of each other, and on the first night the dancer is triumphant. The novelist and his friend fall simultaneously in love with the dancer. The tangle is straightened out ultimately and all ends happily. There is an excellent supporting programme, consisting of a scenic and a comedy. Everybody’s Select Orchestra, tinder the conductorship of Mr W. J. Bellingham, F.S.M.. plays a delightful selection of music.