STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 17

STRAND

“THE LOVE PARADE” In “The Love Parade,” now at the Strand Theatre, Maurice Chevalier sings several engaging songs, featuring “My Love Parade,” “Anything to Please the Queen,” “Nobody’s Using It Now,” “Paris Stay the Same.” And to make matters complete he spends considerable time flattering, flirting and finally falling in love with Jeanette Macdonald, his beautiful .leading lady, who is ideally cast as the Queen of Sylvania. And the Queen, rightly enough, finds it impossible to resist the dashing Count Alfred, whose amorous adventures are the gossip of the kingdom. The Queen, for these things even happen to Queens, is smitten with the dashing, reckless Alfred, and he, man of the world, succumbs to the charm of the beautiful Queen. Their courtship is a merry one, abounding in subtle comedy, ardent love-making and delightful singing. And like all royal marriages, they live happily ever afterwards. That is, with certain reservations which the impetuous Alfred humorously insists on. All in all, it is a fascinating comedy of the most delightful pattern, in which Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald and Litpino Lane revel as gaily as it is possible to imagine. The Strand is also presenting a full supporting programme. Charles Sellon, noted screen character actor, portrays a sheriff in “The Two Black Crows in the A.E.F.,” Moran and Mack’s current all-talking comedy Joan Peers and Neil Hamilton play Gilda Gray, noted stage dancer and star in Paramount’s “Aloma of the South Seas,” has completed her first talkie short, titled “He Was Iler Man.” Walter Fenner plays the male lead.