CHEVALIER AGAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 519, 30 July 1932, Page 25 (Supplement)

CHEVALIER AGAIN.

“One Hour With You” Brings Star to Plaza.

A delightful spirit of gaiety pervades every moment of the Paramount film,

“One Hour With You,” which commenced a season at Plaza Theatre to-day. The outstanding trio Mauricte Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald anci Ernst Lubitsch, the members of which were responsible for “ The Love Parade,” combines again to make the him one of the finest entertainments of the year. Lubitsch shows his mastery of the art of lilm-making by a thousand debt touches, Chevalier is again charming and irresponsible, and Jean nette MacDonald is as fascinating as ever. Contrary to most films which ar e in the musical comedy tradition, the many delightful songs interspersed do not retard the action, but have a definite and important connection with the story.

Chevalier has the role of a young Parisian doctor, Andre Bertier. most happily married to Jeanette MacDonald. Nothing can disturb their serenity until Mitzi Olivier, an old school friend of Madame Bertier, comes to pay a friendly visit. Madame Olivier has been giving her husband a great deal of anxiety, not without reason, and it is not long before she tries to attract the attention of Dr Bertier, who has no intention of being other than a model husband. To avoid the wiles of Mitzi, he tries to arrange someone else to sit next to him at a dinner party his wife is giving, but, just as he is substituting the name-card of a Mile. Martel foi Mitzi’s before the dinner, his wife conies in and thinks that he is doing this in order to be next Mile. Martel. She confides her suspicions to Mitzi, who willingly agrees to keep Dr Bertier away from Mile. Martel during the evening. In this way, the more attentions Mitzi pays to the unfortunate Dr Bertier, the more his wife encourages her. In the circumstances, the doctor’s task is a difficult one, and before the night is over he has become involved in a compromising situation. To make matters worse, Mitzi’s husband has had a divorce detective shadowing her. The situation is a difficult one for Chevalier, but in his inimitable manner he explains all and the picture ends with the reconciliation of the happy married couple. Excellent supporting comedy roles are played by Roland Young as the droll husband of Mitzi, and Charlie Ruggles as a lovelorn admirer of Madame Bertier. Genevieve Tobin makes a vivacious Mitzi.