A LUBITSCH TALKIE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 754, 6 May 1933, Page 24 (Supplement)

A LUBITSCH TALKIE.

** Trouble in Paradise” is Screen Masterpiece. Ernst Lubitsch’s brilliant production, “ Trouble In Paradise ”, is the headline attraction at the Theatre Koyal to-day. Witty and amusing, directed •with consummate skill, lavishly a-nd P e - autifully mounted, finely acted and brilliantly photographed, “ Trouble in Paradise ” is a masterpiece of screen comedy. The masterly direction of Ernst Lubitsch in “One Hour With You” ‘The Broken Lullaby” and “The Love Parade was a salient feature of those films, but in “ Trouble in Paradise ” he excels himself. He makes screen history. Overseas critics received the film with acclamation. One of them commented: “This is, for me at least, the best picture of the year. I have not this year had an hour so full of undiluted cinema delight as this film gave me. Give Lubitsch a couple of cobwebs and he could weave you a fairy castloo Herbert Marshall, a * crook,’ and Miriam Hopkins, his sweetheart, collaborate to pose as secretarv and typist to a wealthy society woman" (Kay Francis) in Paris. “ Crook ” and idle rich woman fall in love, with amusing results. Lubitsch has spun out this engrossing story with deft touches of comedy and a sensitive appreciation of romance. You will see a new Herbert Marshall, a new Miriam Hopkins and a new Kay Francis ifc ‘Trouble in Paradise ’. The screen has never before captured so perfectly Marshall's vibrant, romantic air and his restrained manner, which suggests untold mysteries of charm. Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles and C. Aubrey Smith should not be forgotten: they do their supporting parts beautifully.” After this eulogy, further comment is superfluous, but suffice it to say that the photography is artistic and the continuity of the scenario is never broken.