COMEDY AND WESTERN

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 3

COMEDY AND WESTERN

“ Hello, Trouble,” and “ Paris Interlude.” “Paris Interlude” is an apt title for the entertaining comedy-drama which heads the excellent double-feature bill at the Liberty Theatre this week. It deals brightly with the lives, in Paris, of a gay colony of Americans. There are numerous glimpses of the gay Parisian night-life, there is plenty of humour, a charming love story and, not least, a reproduction of the conclusion of Lindbergh’s famous Atlantic flight. The story has its chief characters in Sam Colt, an aviation news correspondent. his protege, Pat Wells, and Julie Bell—all good Americans, thrown together in Paris. Julie, not too sophisticated, succumbs to Sam’s too-frequently-exerted charms. When Sam' leaves suddenly for America and China, Pat stands by. He helps Julie through, till she wins her . own fame as a fashion writer. Loving Sam, now reported dead, Julie finally agrees to marry Pat. On their wedding eve, Sam, now only the shell of a man, startlingly reappears. Happiness, however, is fairly well distributed in the final scenes. Otto Kruger gives another fine performance as the philandering newspaperman, and Madge Evans is a very feminine and attractive Julie. There is the usual charm about popular Robert Young's characterisation, and Una Merkel makes a saucy and pert comedy foil for Madge Evans. This time as one of the famous company of Texas Rangers, Buck Jones is featured in a typical role in the supporting picture, “Hello, Trouble!” Forced in duty to shoot a former friend, Jones resigns his commission as a ranger to seek peace on an old friend’s ranch. His arrival there, however, coincides with the owner’s death, by shooting, and Jones is involved in some desperate encounters. Opposite Jones is Lina Basquette, an attractive brunette and former Ziegfeld Follies star.