STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 14

STRAND

BON BON REVUE CO. Brightness is the keynote of great success o£ the third sparki !' programme given by the Bon R Kevue Company at the strand th° 0 week. From the opening orchestral selection to the final scene the „ gramme radiates the -cheer germ" tediously. “Whirl Wind” i 3 the ot this programme, and it has be, rightly called, tor the audience is c. ried from one scene to another witW any pauses whatever. This is due the work of Robert Roberts the n ° ducer-comedian, and his' talents artists. After the overture the rT Bons “Take You Through the Ag«° and then you are “invited to shat your feet" by Arline Paterson. R ot T Roberts is superb in the sketch -1/ Colonel and the Girl," in which he The Arline Paterson excel all former effot? d Then the Bon Bons and Mamfce j a T mournfully -Let You Know Hungry,” and “The Angelus” it :,,*' by May Webster and Maurice The Bon Bons very tray sheaves of wheat. When i Mills and Will Gilbert appear " stage the whole house is kept it °' e uproar with their new comedy stU® 0 George Edwards and Molly Hueh«.f pear to their best advantage it, Slight Error,” an hilarious sketch it which photographers' studios J? matrimonial agencies are delightfmT jumbled. “When We Were YouS forms the final scene to this hilari™, programme. As a tottering old master, Robert Roberts shows wh) an excellent character actor he is Th company appears as his unmanajk-hi pupils to keep the house in sere™! of laughter. screams A poignant drama, set in surround, mgs that spell joy, revelry and th„ pleasures of the idle rich—this is thl paradox in “Women Love Diamonds" the remarkable new showing at Ts, Strand Theatre. ™ Pauline Starke scores a triumph h, the new picture, in the role of a ei. facing the most terrible problem th»‘ ever fell to the lot of a woman it; emotional possibilities make her rob outstanding, and her handling of it i. artistry personified. Owen Moore plays the hero, inject ing his whimsical humour and human understanding into a difficult acting part as the chauffeur-lover in a stranee tangle of human destinies. Doughs Fairbanks, jnr., and Lionel Barrymore are two other bright spots in the constellation of celebrities in the new dlc. ture. Cissy Fitzgerald as the mother, and Gwen Lee as the fashionable daugh ter, have remarkably fine roles, which they handle with rare skill, and George Cooper has an important part The settings and costumes are gorgeous—portraying the spirit of -h e drama of effervescent society. Edmund Goulding, the author, personamdirected the picture.