MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 30 November 1935, Page 11

MAJESTIC THEATRE

1 S -PARIS IN SPRING.’* I A sparkling production is ‘Taris in I Spring.” the delightful Paramount i comedy, which will commence a season I at the Majestic Theatre to-day. Directed with consummate artistry, the j film captures the very breath of spring I —a spring which one only associates k with Paris, when the city is gloriously ( - awake, and adventure is in the air. Tullio Carminati, the personable Italian actor, v\on many admirers by his performance in “One Night of Love,” but it is in “Paris in the Spring,” as Paul de Lille, that his | flair for light comedy comes to frui--1 Ilion. By every little hesitant gesture land quaint intonation of English—especially in his more emotional love "* passages—Garmin- i wins the amused sympathy of the • adience, but has unfortunate success in incurring the antipathy of Simone, a lovely cabaret s nger (Mary Ellis), with whom he, not unnaturally, is desperately in love. So I desperately, that he is in half a mind jto jump from the top of the Eiffel ' Tower at the very beginning of the film. Simone, of course, is in love with I de Lille, but she appears to disdain his I advances. The stage is thus set for a ‘delightful piece of deception. Jealousy I begins to rear its ugly head when the I two lovers arrive at a country mansion, and the sequel is a serial of misunder- ; standings, with which the director, i Lewis Milestone, makes excellent play. There is plot and counterplot and mutual recrimination, but it is spring ' time, and the tangled threads are un- _ I ravelled for a delightful and happy ; ending. In the role of a Parisian night • club entertainer Mary Ellis is as

charming as ever, and her voice is charming, too. She is comparatively new to the screen work, but her talented interpretation in “Paris in Spring” ensures for her a successful career at Hollywood. Among the supporting cast is Ida Lupino, a member of the well-known Lupino family of entertainers, who gives a satisfying performance as an ingenue blonde. The shorter films are an entertainment in themselves. They include another of the interesting “Broadway Highlights” series, a comical cartoon in which 11 Pop-eye the Sailor” cuts his usual capers, and a Grantland Rice Sportlight. There is also a camera re- ' cord of the final doubles match in the [ Davis Cup contest.