QUEEN’S FILMS PIQUANT ROMANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17830, 26 April 1926, Page 7

QUEEN’S FILMS PIQUANT ROMANCE.

VALENTINO STARS IN SECOND FEATURE. A sophisticated Viennese comedy, radiating the gaiety and carelessness of the waltzing city, is billed for premier attraction at the Queen’s Theatre today. “Her Sister from Paris,” starring Constance Talmadge and featuring Ronald Colman. This airy story has about it a sparkle and flash associated only with all things. Parisian, a piquant romance and ciiginal domestic triangle that could be successfully handled only by that queen of comediennes. Constance Talmadge. Appearing first as the domesticated wife, she later impersonates her dancing sister from Paris, her objective being to regain her husband’s affection, aqd the amusing, and occasionally disastrous developments that follow are all that

can be expected from so precarious an adventure. There are entrancing glimpses of the brilliant life of Vienna that is now no more, its music-loving populace, its famous Follies, courtly officers and lovely women, and in the midst of this atmosphere of beauty and chivalry whirls “ Her Sister From Paris,” bent on recapturing her husband. The denouement is astonishingly amusing, both Ronald Colman and Miss Talmadge giving a faultless

rendering of roles which might easily have been overdone. The second feature is “ A Sainted Devil.” starring Rudolph Valentino. The story is enacted in the Argentine, where the colourful surroundings provide an excellent background for the star's particular talent, and the picture devolves into one of the most thrilling romances in which this popular actor has yet appeared, his Latin temperament reacting perfectly to every detail requested of him. llis leading lady is Helen d’Algy, a perfect type for the role. The thirteenth episode of “ Samson of the. Circus ” will also be screened. The box plans aie at Webley’s.