“BLONDE OR BRUNNETTE?”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 15

“BLONDE OR BRUNNETTE?”

AT REGENT ON FRIDAY Railed as one of the cleverest and most sparkling dramas ever offered. 'Blonde or Brunette,” a Paramount picture, starring Adolphe Menjou. comes to the Regent Theatre on Friday. The eternal triangle, that perennially popular motif of the drama, has in this instance been adroitly made fun of by no less a personage than the ultra-debonair Mr. Menjou, with Greta Nissen and Arlette Marchal as his chief assistants. The French have always been clever in making froth of domestic oppressiveness, and a neat Gallic touch is much in evidence in this offering, which was adapted from the Parisian stage success, "An Angel Passes,” by Jacques Bousquet and Henri Falk. Menjou is the prosperous Paris barrister who tires of friends who make his apartment a free road-house. He decides to marry and settle down. Greta Nissen is the lucky girl. The settling down is of brief duration. And Arlette Marchal, a brunette, decides that perhaps the gentleman doesn’t fancy blondes after all. Thereupon a gay war ensues between both women for Adolphe’s affection. The hilarious and farcical climax arrives when Menjou, divorced from one charmer and married to the other, is marooned with both at a country estate where his hosts, unaware of the separation. insist on his staying in the wrong room. It takes two divorces and three marriages to get things straightened out to everybody’s satisfaction, and the straightened procedure, from an audience’s standpoint, makes a delightful farce comedy highly prefer- , able.