"DEVIL-MAY-CARE" ROMANTIC FILM

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 2, 5 June 1930, Page 5

"DEVIL-MAY-CARE" ROMANTIC FILM

Eamon Novarro Fights WayThrough Adventure in First Talkie.

llamoft Novarro, dressed in the handsojn« uniform of a lieutenant of Napoleon Bonaparte, nmking his escape 'from a frring squad; cliimbing into a ■'ibeautiful.young woman's boudoir in the dead of' nigM; masquerading as a footman; duelling his way to fame and for-. t^e __thcse are some of the sequences pf.-''' 'Devil-M-ay-Caro, '' . Novarro ;s alltalkmg ahTj'sieal romance which will open ■bhc King George Thenrte on HaitiiTtlay. '.'•. ■ Tihcii.ciW' picture, ailapatoil froan the Frottch play, '' La BataiJ'le • dcs Dames,'; is sai'-a to be a perfect ■'vehicle for the NovaTro. Tho sjtoi-y tells of 'tho ailvonr.ures of Armani!, the exiled

■ Napoleon.',* trusted lieutenauit wiio to bring back his iliegc to the •'"throoi-o of Prance. "When-ho.-.falls in -love -vvith Lconie ; ardent Royalist, coui-

plication^ begin. - . Director Sidney Franklin chose Novar ih>'s Mippoiling cast with an eye on the ntus-ical phase of . tho" produ'Ction. .

Dorothy Jordan, formerly of '■'Garriek G'aiotiel, " " Twinkle, Twinkle and

otfiier Broadway musical comedies, has the loading feminine role, this being her first feature venture into films. Marion

Harris, well-known Revue singer, has the prominent role of Countess Louise. Others in the.-east iniclu.de John MiQijan, Wilila-m Humphrey, George Davies and OU€Pord Bimce.

The *ix songs in this musical romance wQre written by Herbert Sto'tharft, co-compoae-r of '' Rse Marie.' '■■ The songs are 3ung by *N"ovarro, Dorothy Jordan, ■wito -comes to the screen from Bxoadiway inteifeal comedy" stage, and Marion Harris, -weJl-knoivvn Eevue singer.