“A BED-TIME STORY.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 833, 5 August 1933, Page 24 (Supplement)

“A BED-TIME STORY.”

Plaza Shows Chevalier’s Latest Film. Maurice Chevalier's latest talking picture, “ A Bed-time Story,” heads the current programme at the plaza Theatre. Concerning this fine production, a northern critic writes: After viewing "A Bed-time Story,” Paramount’s delightful musical comedy, one is bound to come to the conclusion that there is, and ali ways will be, only one Maurice Chevalier. He is unique: he is personality itself. Maurice Chevalier took the world by storm when he made his first talking picture, “ The Innocents of Paris,” and ever since then Paramount has presented him in a series of suc-

cesses, each one of which has heightened his popularity. Now he is to be seen at his very best in “A Bed-time Story.” Certainly, he is not so intriguingly French as he used to be, but he has not lost one grain of his magnetic personality. In all his films ie always has the support of one, and sometimes two, beautiful women, and in this new venture, Helen Twelvetrees,

blonde and fascinating-, and Adrienne Ames, brunette and equally fascinating, vie with each other and several other beautiful women, for honours. However, it is not the French star, or his leading woman, or Edward Everett Horton, the popular comedian, who really run off with all the honours. It is Baby Leroy, the most fascinating, cuddlesome morsel of eight months one could ever wish to see or hear. Who “ steals ” the show. Baby Leroy, who was chosen by Chevalier to play in this film, was picked from hundreds of applicants. He is a chubby little mite who gurgles his way through the picture entirely oblivious of the fact that he is being photographed for all the world to see. The story concerns a gay French Vicomte, who finds a baby left in his car. His subsequent adventures and the resulting complications make one of the best films of the year. Chevalier sings several very tuneful numbers in the show.