“CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD” FOR CRYSTAL PALACE.
The picture which will follow “ Slightly Scarlet ” at 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,” and 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 positive D’Artagnan without his three friends, but little the worse for that. Laura La Plante is the lady who is altei’nately the butt of the royalist and revolutionary factions, for “ The Captain of the Guard ” is a story with its setting in the tumultuous and dangerous 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, an] with John Boles fighting and singing his way through every danger, with Laura La Piante at his side and the mobs of Pons 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 song of the rebellious Frenchmen, ** La Marseillaise,” runs through the picture, and the love song, “ For You Alone,” is by Chailes Wakefield Cadman. Miss La Plante and Boles are supported by excellent artists. Sam de Grasse, as King Louis XVI., Lionel Belmore, as Robespierre, Richard Cramer (a descendant of the Scottish Bruce), Stuart Holmes and Claude Fleming, while Miss Evelyn Hall is excellent as Queen Marie Antoinette, when she asks why the people cannot eat cake if they have no bread. It is altogether too long since there has been a fine, swinging, historical romance like this one, and it is devoutly to be hoped that “ The Captain of J.he Guard ” is but the forerunner of many others of its kind. The box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano Com-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19119, 11 July 1930, Page 5
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