MUSICAL COMEDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 29 November 1935, Page 10

MUSICAL COMEDY

ROMANCE AT MAJESTIC “PARIS IN SPRING” TO-MORROW Something entirely new in musical comedy romances is provided in “Paris in Spring,” which commences at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. In this Mary Ellis, charming Metropolitan Opera star, and Tullio Carminati, who will be remembered for his work with Grace Moore in “One Night of Love,” have the leads. The film has a variety of elements, which include catchy music, romance, amusing situations, and fine staging. The singing of Mary Ellis is a feature of the production, as it has been with all the films in which Carminati has appeared in the last five months. She is cast as a famous cabaret singer with whom Carminati is in love. However, they are a tempestuous pair, and Carminati’s offers of marriage are scorned. A quarrel is all that is needed; to give the comedy sequences free rein, and the pair find themselves in some unique predicaments. The two leading players are admirably supported by Ida Lupino and Lynne Overman. “The Goose and the Gander,” coming next Wednesday to the Majestic, offers excellent entertainment. The scene is at a summer resort, at which the wife of a very high society gentleman decides to run off with a former playmate. In the meantime, the husband meets his first wife, who is still under the impression that she is in love with him, and who also knows of his second wife’s indiscretions. A combination of circumstances largely brought about by the second wife brings both couples together at a mountain lodge. A)t the same time, two hotel thieves take possession of the second wife’s car, and join the other two couples at the lodge, posing as the original husband and wife. Kay Genevieve Tobin, Ralph Forbes, and George Brent arc the principal players.

Paramount have granted Mary Boland six months’ leave to play in a Broadway show—her first stage work lor two years.

James Dunn is to be Ann Sothern s leading man in a musical which she will make for Columbia, directed by Victor Schertzinger. Cicely Courtneidge’s first American picture, “The Perfect Gentleman,” will be directed by Tim Whelan. Frank Morgan plays opposite. Benita Hume is to play in “Tarzan Returns,” with Johnny Weismuller and Maureen O’Sullivan in their original roles Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who are writing the music for Paramount’s “Collegiate,” the Joe Penner-Jack Oakie comedy, wrote nine song!) of each of which more than 100,000 copies were sold last year. Among the most sucessful numbers by this team of song-writers were “Did You Ever Seo a Dream Walking?” and “Stay As Sweet As You Are.”