ROXY'S FINE SHOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 990, 5 June 1930, Page 16

ROXY'S FINE SHOW

JEANNE EAGELS IN “JEALOUSY”

ALSO “SOUL OF FRANCE”

The vital question of “Should a to protect love and home when they are threatened, gorgeously presented in a Parisian background with dynamic Jeanne Eagels, held Roxy Theatre audiences spellbound with the intense dramtic action of “Jealousy,” the Paramount picture being presented for the first time last evening. Jeanne Eagels, who scored such a great success in “The Letter,” combined with a cast of sterling stage favourites, including Fredric March, Halliwell Hobbes, Blanche Le Clair, Henry Daniell and Hilda Moore, brings to Auckland another outstanding picture presented in a more spectacular form. “Jealousy” is laid in a glamorous Parisian background, with models, artists and the idle rich who use lives as pawns. Jeanne Eagels, as Yvonne, marries a poor artist, concealing a questionable past from him. Encountering financial difficulties,, she goes to her former lover for aid, in the meantime he has been killed under unusual circumstances. A mystery within a mystery, and a supreme love combined, give Miss Eagels opportunity to display her amazing dramatic talents and make “Jealousy” as great a milestone in pictures as was her former success, “The Letter.” The earnest theatregoer will not miss it under any circumstances. The whirr and whine of bullets, the roar of the guns, the staccato exhausts of the airplanes are the sound effects that are to be heard in “The Soul of France,” the Paramount release which is the second attraction at hte Roxy Theatre. The soul-stirring music accompaniment is a fitting tribute of this special story, a story w’hich tells of the great part played by the French nation in this great war epic.