"CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD" FOR CRYSTAL PALACE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19118, 10 July 1930, Page 5

"CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD" FOR CRYSTAL PALACE.

The picture which will follow “Slightly Scarlet” at the Crystal Palace Theatre is “The Captain of the Guard,’’ a musical drama based on the romantic adventures of Rouget de l’lsle, the author of “La Marseillaise,” anti one of the most ambitious, and incidentally, successful musical pictures produced within the last two or three years. John Boles, the foremost tenor in pictures, has the role of de l’lsle, which he makes| a vigorous and swashbuckling affair, a possible D’Artagn.an without his three friends, but little tho worse for that. Laura La Plante is the lady who is alternately of the royalist and revolutionary factions, for "The Captain of the Guard” is a story with its setting in the tumultuous and dangerour days of the French Revolution, and the writers of the romance have seen to it that it simply teems with thrilling incidents. Tales of romance and conspiracy and intrigue always make up a fine, stirring plot on the screen, and with John Boles fighting and singing his way through every danger, with Laura La Plante at his side and the mobs of Paris at his heels, it will be a poor, anaemic soul who will not thrill to "The Captain of the Guard” at the Crystal Palace next week. The box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano , Company.