STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 422, 2 August 1928, Page 14

STRAND

“LOVES OF CARMEN”

Only a year ago Dolores Del Rio appeared in her first picture and achieved fame, and every successive production has been another triumph for her. As the passionate Carmen she gives her most magnificent performance. She is the Wild Rose of old Seville, full of thorns and sweetness in this magnificent screen version, entitled. “Loves of Carmen.” which is now being shown at the Strand Theatre. All those who viewed the magnificent prologue presented by Miss Bettina Edwards for “The Gaucho,” will look forward with the keenest of pleasure to the beautiful and daring atmospheric prologue now being offered by Auckland’s most beautiful and talented dancer. Her partner, a dashing toreador, sings the famous “Toreador” song from Bizet’s opera, and gives it the full value of his rich, melodious baritone voice. Eve Bentley’s Strand Symphony Orchestra plays a beautiful and appropriate musical programme, specially featuring as their overture “Carmen.” “La Source” (Ballet Suite), “Maid of the Mountains” (Fraser-Simson), “Per Omnes” (Chomel), “Peppa,” from “Dance Espagnole” (Michiels), “Genevieve de Brabant” (Offenbach), and “Verbena de la Paloma” (Breton), are but a few of the musical gems included in the incidental music.

The whirl and bustle of a great metropolitan daily; the spectacular details of America’s hugest social affair, and an astounding plot set in a background of official Washington, capital of the nation—these are the settings for John Gilbert’s latest role of the screen, as A 1 Whitcomb, reporter, in “Man, Woman and Son,” his new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, which will be shown this evening at the Grand Theatre.