STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 15

STRAND

“THE LOVE PARADE” As Queen Louise, in “The Love Parade,” at the Strand Theatre, Jeanette MacDonald is beautiful, believable and delightful. A more satisfactory leading lady for Maurice Chevalier it is impossible to imagine. A former star of a number of Broadway musical comedies, Miss MacDonald gives every promise of being one of the most talented and charming of the new actresses to be seen and heard on the audible screen. Of course, there are many tuneful songs which Victor Schertzinger has written for “The Love Parade,” and which Chevalier, Miss MacDonald and Luiuino Lane and Lillian Roth, the latter two vivacious comedians, sing. The hit of the show is called “My Love Parade,” sung as a duet by Chevalier and Miss MacDonald. And “Anything to Please the Queen,” an intimate, sophisticated sung by Chevalier, is sure to prove popular with audiences everywhere. Other songs are “My Dream Lover,” sung by Miss MacDonald, and “Paris, Stay the Same,” a Chevalier solo. Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth put over a comedy song, “Let’s be Common,” one of those catchy songs that everyone will be humming these days. There is also a typical marching number, “March of the Grenadiers,” sung by a rousing male chorus. All the musical secirienees are enhanced by beautiful, handsome choruses with eye-filling gorgeous sets for backgrounds. As a matter of fact, “The Love Parade’ is an extraordin- | arily photographed picture, a remark- , able tribute to the magic of the j camera. # j The Strand’s programme also in- \ eludes a number of shorter talkie j