“A Night In Cairo” Will Make A General Appeal

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7278, 4 October 1933, Page 5

“A Night In Cairo” Will Make A General Appeal

ROMANTIC COMEDY OF EGYPT . STARRING RAMON NOVARRO “A Night in Cairo,” a romantic comedy of Egypt, starring Rainon Novarro, will begin at the Regent on Wednesday next. Novarro is seen as a resourceful rogue ostensibly occupied in the legitimate business of guiding tourists through the picturesque pyramid sight -seeing country, but more subtly engaged in the romantic activity of impressing wealthy widows with his charms.

It is a new kind of "racket” and one said to be as diverting as it is ingenious. Into the story enters Myrna Loy as a young English girl who has come to Cairo to marry the somewhat slow-witted engineer in charge of a new aqueduct. Novarro enters her employ as a guide and from then on one exciting ‘happening follows upon another with lightning-like rapidity. The impetuous Egyptian falls head-over-heels in love with the girl and makes it his business to embarrass her confused fiance at every opportunity, at the same time showing himself up in a prepossessing light. The girl, however, refuses to take him seriously and when all other means fail, Novarro contrives a daring coup as the result of which the heroine finds herself alone with him in the midst of the desert, and subsequently becomes his prisoner. Ihoic is a surprising climax. In "A Night in Cairo,” Myrna Loy makes her first screen appearance opposite Novarre Reginald Denny plays the slow-witted fiance and Louise Glosser Hale has another hilarious comedy role as Mvrna Loy's personal maid.

A real-life tragedy of pre-war days—the shooting of Stamford White by Harry Thaw in a New York roof garden to avenge the honour of Evelyn Nesbit—is, according to recent advice, to be mado the subject of a screen drama by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Though the east has not been definitely settled, it is proposed that Jean Harlow shall play the beautiful artist's model with Francliot Tone as Thaw and Clark Gable as White. The real Evelyn Nesbit became a film actress some years after the death of White and attained considerable prominence as a star of silent pictures.