CRYSTAL PALACE AND EMPRESS
With all the ingredients for a modernised light opera, Marion Davies's musical-talking feature is now at both the Crystal Palace, Mount Eden, and Empress, Newton, theatres. This is the most tuneful talking film yet to reach the screen without suffering an infringement upon its dramatic values and it sparkles with a. romantic charm seldom approached in any other entertainment medium. For Miss Davies, this new sound j feature is a personal triumph. She 1 essays a most difficult role, entirely in French and broken-English dia- ! lect, and negotiates her song num- ! hers in splendid voice. Lawrence Gray, who plays opposite her as her j doughboy sweetheart, is surprisingly lyrical of voice and their love song j scenes together are nothing short of I magnificent. j The love ballad, “Just You Just 1 Me," is a sure-file hit and the theme I song, “Marianne,” is bound to be popu- | I lar. Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Edwards strums several novelty numbers, I “Sugar” and “Hang On to Me” in his own inimitable manner, and Benny Rubin, who shares comedy relief honours with him, puts pep and personality into his share of the musical sequences.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 946, 12 April 1930, Page 14
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195CRYSTAL PALACE AND EMPRESS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 946, 12 April 1930, Page 14
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