FINAL SCREENING

Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 22

FINAL SCREENING

•HAUGHTY MARIETTA’ AT HIS MAJESTY'S Produced on a spectacular scale by Mctro-Gokhvyn-Mayer, with Jeanette MacDonald, the Sonia of ‘ The Merry Widow,’ and acknowledged one of the greatest singing stars of the screen, and Nelson Eddy, operatic baritone, hailed as a sensational ‘‘ discovery ” among romantic leading men, ‘ Naughty Marietta ’ was filmed as a drama of romantic days, a vehicle that gives to the famous Victor Herbert music the importance it merits. Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer’s screen transcription of 1 N'anghty Marietta,’ which concludes this evening at His Majesty’s Theatre, takes on as much importance as its original stage premiere, because of the unique handling of the story. The old comic opera libretto was laid aside, and the stirring incidents, historical facts, and dramatic thrills referred to in dialogue in the stage version are actually shown. Miss MacDonald plays a princess who masquerades ns a casquette girl, and Nelson Eddy a British officer in New Orleans. 'Their songs are hacked by huge symphony orchestras, a chorus of 1(H) voices, and many musical novelties fitted into the score by Herbert Stothart. famous composer and one-time a-.- .smite of Uctlktl.