CHEVALIER AGAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 1 February 1934, Page 3

CHEVALIER AGAIN.

Smiling Frenchman Starred in “ The Way to Love.” J -. B „ Priestley’s “ The Good Compamons and supporting programme SI 1 * eon elude its season at the Regent Theatre to-morrow night. of Maurice Chevalier, the smiling Frenchman—and their number is legion—will find the singing star cast amid settings familiar to him in his tenth him, " The Way to Love,” which Wi. °* n Satur <3ay at the Regent h i _ As an inhabitant of the left bank of the Seine. Paris, Chevalier ar n oi \f the picturesque roof-tops, Jr® m usic halls and the carnival life chagc ter 1 stic of this interesting aspect ut 1 arisian life. it offers him the {JI° an , d human roles in which I 1,?. d ® l, s htsr * and a s a champion of anything from a harassed canine to the lady assistant of a villainous gipsv knife-thrower, he imbues those with whom he comes in contact with his philosophy of carefree happiness Tn the early scenes Chevalier, as Francois a heavily-laden heart to fulfil his life s ambition of becoming a , guide to a tourist agency. His journeys lead hi m across the path of Madeline, the knifethrower's beautiful target, and he takes her under his wing when she runs away from her employer installing her in'his i: roof-top home. The !j only way in which ;j: she can be saved % from her guardian ? is for her to marry '■ Francois. The post of a guide is offered to Francois and his dream of happines.s appears complete. But Madame Bibi thwarts his plans in an endeavour to further the aims of her country niece and induces Madeline to release him. Francois sets out in search of her, and his quest is beset with amusing and dramatic complications in which he proves his gallantry in combat with a wrestling champion at a sideshow, and later in conflict with the Sv n, J e ;J hrow * p - Ann Dvorak reveals Madeline as a tragic but beautiful figure, and Edward Everett Horton provides a goodly portion of the com- , Chevalier is heard in several delightful songs, among which arc * m a Lover of Paree ” and ‘‘ln a One Room Flat.” Rox plans at The Bristol.