ADOLPHE MENJOU PLAYS “GENTLEMAN OF PARIS.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 9

ADOLPHE MENJOU PLAYS “GENTLEMAN OF PARIS.”

Adolphe Menjou has returned to the local screen. Such news is suificlent to cause the hearts of all picture lovers to leap. or just whatever hearts do, with joy. At Everybody'e Theatre next week. “A Gentleman of Paris" will be screened, a. tart and polite and Parisian comedyvall about a. certain gentleman. his valet. his valet’s wife and a few other lovely ladies. Shirley O'Hara and Arlette Marcha] assist Monsieur Menibu in his peregrinations through this film P 3515: and Nicholas Soussanfm provides a. ery powerful bit or dramatic acting as the valet. The picture is of the comedy persuasion, but no Menjou comedy yet has been pure laughter. Al~ ways there is a sharp breath of real 'life running through his alternately gay and cynical pictures. And “A Gentleman of Paris' is no exception. His role as Edouard de Sevigny is another Menjou role, quiet. smiling. dangerous. exquisitely tailored physmally and mentally and emotionally. The ladies are played by Shirley O'Hara. Arlette Marchal. Ivy Harris and Lorrane Eddy. One recalls here that it was in Charles Chaplin’s first effort as a. director, “A Woman or Paris." that the then unknlown Menjou had his first important I‘o e. Albert Bidgood has arranged a. special musical score for the Select Orchestra. Overture, “Raymond" (Thomas): suites. “La. Fete Choc Therese" (Guirand). “En Voyage " (Mouton). “ Open Road” (Fletcher); selections. “Demon" (Rubinstein), “Lortzing” (Urbach), " Pique Dame" (Suppe). "Legende" (Dvorak), “ Neapolitan Scenes " (Massexmt), “Dance of the Apprentices" (W'agner), “Badinage” (Herbert), entr‘acte, ”VVhistle for Me" (Brockett). Box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company. where seats may be reserved.