PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 299, 9 March 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

FINE DOUBLE OFFERING What everyone has been waiting for is to see a picture that is the essence of entertainment, and one which will take the people out of themselves and create unalloyed pleasure during period spent within the walls of their favourite theatre. The Princess and Tivoli Theatres this week are offering a rattling good comedy-drama that last night won instant approbation. It is a snappy, fastmoving comedy-drama with a flavour of the Paris boulevards, the life of the Continental resorts, the zest of the spicy Montmartre cafes, and in fact a picture with a thousand different angles.

“French Dressing” is the title of this altogether delightful production, which promises to be a big draw during its season at these two theatres. It is an Allan Dwan production, and depends for its success not a little on the efforts of the cast. There is B. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Lilyan Tashman, and Clive Brook. The settings are in a French atmosphere. and that combined with the excellent cast provide the very thing the public want in good pictures. It is one thing to leave your husband and never want to see him again, but it makes a vast difference when he is seized by another woman, and the best friend of the family at that. This is one of the bright situations which comes out in the picture. The story, of course, is a* novel as it is attractive, and concerns a few incidents in the life of a wealthy j Boston couple who find themselves in Paris. Caught with his arm about another girl, wifi© decides to divorce her husband. Awaiting the divorce proceedings, this badly treated wife begins to see life. And that is where the fun of the picture comes in. She certainly sees life, and incidentally runs up against her husband, who is also doing the same thing. Even the best of times must come to an end, and so this hilarious life in Paris, when they never stop, through the day and night, at last gives way to sanity, and the realisation that a mistake has been made. And so back to Boston go this prosaic couple, all the better for their fling, and happy again. '• It is a thoroughly enjoyable picture that cannot help but please and entertain, and it is due for a most successful week at both the Princess and Tivoli Theatres. The second attraction on the programme is a fine story of the great out-of-doors, “Gun Gospel,” with Ken Maynard in the title role. Fast and furious is this drama of men and horses, with a plentiful supply of bullets flying from guns and revolvers. The attraction of the picture is the riding of the cast. They handle their horses with uncanny skill, and evoke wondering admiration. Virginia Brown Faire plays a delightful leading lady, and, of course, there is Tarzan, the horse that seems almost human. And so, through a maze of adventures the people are taken, and this drama comes to a happy finish. The supporting programme includes a further picture in the “Collegians” series, a topical news and an enjoyable comedy. The music at both theatres is well chosen and well rendered.