ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3882, 11 December 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Forced to enter the den of a ferocious tiger to return a lady’s glove, in order to prove his love for the woman, Adolphe Menjou becomes entangled in a series of thrilling situations in his latest Paramount starring production, “His Tiger Lady,” which comes to the screen of the Town Hall on Wednesday. Menjou has been given a decidedly different role in this picture, an adaptation of Alfred Savoir’s play, “Super of the Gaiety.” The star is cast as a mere extra man of the .Folies Bergere, Paris, who falls in love with a rich lady and wins her through an impersonation. His only suit, a shiny, blue affair, is ruined by teasing colleagues back stage in the theatre, and the clothes he wears on the stage are all Menjou has left. In the garb of a maharajah, he sets out to have a grand time, in his affair with the lady and her ultimatum that unless he rescues her glove from the tiger’s den, she will never see him again. Prices as usual. Ramon Novarro and Rene Adoree are the stars in Friday’s feature, “A Certain Young Man,’” a glittering story of London society. ROYAL. The Universal special attraction “Love me and the World is Mine,” will be the attraction at the Royal next Saturday. The title indicates the thread of the tender and touching romance which runs throughout the story. It does not, however, indicate 4he tremendous sweep and surge of drama, the great pageant of European life, the dazzling scenes of gay, old Vienna before the war which combines with the intensely human love motif to make “Love Me and the WJorld is Mine” one of the finest pictures in the history of the screen. Based on the Austrian novel, “The Affairs of Hannerl,” by Rudolph Hanns Bartsch, the picture is incomparable in atmosphere and local colour. Its striking scenes of the Bosnian — Herzegovinian regiments of the Austrian army, its many brilliant pourt scenes, its delightful sequence In the Prater- —the Coney Island of Vienna —its multitude of street shots, where one can almost hear the bustle and hum of the crowds made the two hours spent in seeing it a never-to-be forgotten period. The performances of the Reading characters are uniformly excellent. Mary Philbin as the heroine and Norman Kerry as the romantic army offllcer are ideally matched. B.ettv Compson, as the Viennese demimonde is a perfect character.