ROMANTIC DRAMA.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20455, 7 November 1934, Page 3

ROMANTIC DRAMA.

Sylvia Sidney and Grant in “ Thirty-day Princess.”

i The late John Galsworthy’s “ One More River,” starring Diana Wynyard and Colin Clive, will be screened finally on Friday night at the Tivoli Theatre. Bright and entertaining romance is the keynote of “ Thirty-day Princess.” starring Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant, which will open at the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday. It is a delightful Ruritanian romance in which the essential difference from the style inaugurated by the late Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, or, as he was better known, “Anthony Hope,” is that the mythical European monarch and his lovely daughter are brought from the kingdom to the great world outside instead of a stranger from that world making his presence felt in Ruritania. A lovely princess goes to America to aid in raising a loan for her povertystricken country, but on arrival has a disastrous attack of mumps. A substitute is found in an out-of-work chorus-girl, but inevitable complications arise when this deception is found out, as it had to be. How the “ face ” of the principals in the matter, to say nothing of their hearts and their dollars, are saved provides an engrossing talc. Sylvia Sidpey is firstrate in the dual part of the princess and the pseudo-princess, while Cary ; Grant is his usual excellent self as the i unconvinced young newspaperman who ; nearly upsets the whole “ apple cart.” Box plans at the D.I.C.