TWO GOOD PICTURES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20367, 26 July 1934, Page 3

TWO GOOD PIC TURES.

“ Only Girl ” and “ Voltaire for Crystal Palace. “ The Poor Rich ” and “ 42nd Street ” will be screened finally to-morrow night at the Crystal Palace Theatre. “ Voltaire,” starring the incomparable George Arliss, and “ The Only Girl” (Lilian Harvey) will cotnprise the magnificent double programme at the Crystal Palace Theatre on Saturday, There is said to be a wistful charm in “ The Only Girl ” that appeals to all who like their entertainment romantic in period no less than in sentiment and with the lilt of a love song running, like a glittering thread, through all the daintiness. “ The Only Girl ” has been filmed in no fewer than three languages in Europe—French, English and German —with winsome Lilian Harvey playing in all three, although with a different lead in the German version. Charles Boyer, who, like Lilian Harvey, has now been captured by the lure of Hollywood dollars, plays the leading role in this pleasing story of a romantic duke and a chambermaid in the colourful days cf the Empress Eugenie. A single incident in the long and singularly exciting career of the great French poet-philosopher is used as a dramatic background for “ Voltaire,” starring George Arliss. About this one incident has been drawn all the gorgeous panoply and extravagance of the court of Louis XV., all the exciting intrigue which centred in the boudoir of Madame Pompadour. It is thrilling, reckless, beautifully mannered melodrama, the like of which has seldom come out of Hollywood before. Box plans at the D.I.C.