“NAUGHTY MARIETTA”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 180, 31 July 1936, Page 10

“NAUGHTY MARIETTA”

BEA ITIEI L KOMANCE Haunting music of Victor Herbert, blended with thundering drama of the founding of a great city and with a delicate love romance running through it; such is “Naughty Mari-* etta.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s spectacular translation to the screen of Victor Herbert’s masterpiece, which is to commence a return season at the Majestic Theatre next Saturday. Jeanette MacDonald, who never was more beautiful nor sang so divinely, and Nelson Eddy, young operatic baritone, who makes his debut as a screen hero with a performance that indicates that he is on the screen to stay, head an elaborate cast. The story is staged on spectacular scale, huge settings, gorgeous costumes, and intense dramatic action embellishing such song hits as “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” “I’m Falling in Love with Someone,” “Chansonette,” “The Italian Street Song.” and other immortal Herbert music. A “GIDDY WHIRL'’ life IN LONDON STAR PREFERS HOLLYWOOD London life is a “giddy whirl," after which Hollywood seems sane and quiet, according to Miss Wendy Barrie, the 23-year-old British film star. “Since I left London for Hollywood I have been more happy and contented with life than ever before,” she declared in an interview at Hollywood. “Hollywood is the only place I have found where you can live a really sane life. Since coming to Hollywood my life has become more settled, and for the first time I have ' been able to plan my future. I could never do that in London. “They speak of America as always being in too much of a hurry, and Americans being in a giddy whirl and thereby shortening their lives. I have not found that true in Hollywood. “It is truer about London. In London you are always dashing about, with never a minute for relaxation.” Miss Barrie's next film is called “Speed.” William Faulkner, American novelist and author of “Sanctuary,” has been engaged by Edward Small to write a film based on Kipling's poem, “Gunga Din.” He recently worked on “The Road to Glory” for Twentieth Century-Fox. Wodehouse’ Jeeves on Screen. Roland Young will have the role of Bertie Wooster in the film version of P. G. Wodehouse’s “Thank You. Jeeves,” starring Arthur Treacher as Jeeves. Adolphe Menjou, completely recovered from his recent illnesses, is to be teamed with Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland in Paramount’s “The Imperfect Husband.” Menjou not appeared in any films since “The Milky Way.*"’