Mr. and Mrs. George Arliss are holding forth at the Metropolitan this week in a polished performance revolving around the problems of a royal marriage. The production finds Arliss quite at home in a part as well suited to his enduring capabilities as "Disraeli" and "The Millionaire."

Because of something recognizably superior in the Arliss personality, one finds a peculiarly human atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind."

With his voluntary abdication from a mythical throne in Central Europe, Arliss is forced with either remaining faithful to his queen or returning to the wife he left in order to be king. Off hand, it looks like a set-up for the girl of his youth, but she's changed, you see, and then with no place to worry about, the queen begins to develop a new personality. It's an interesting problem in human nature to which Arliss provides the most satisfactory kind of solution.

In reviewing a week's presentation at the Metropolitan, it is hardly fair to confine one's commentary to the film as the entertainment offered includes a varsity of forms. Johuny Perkins, a man with a big tummy and a jazz orchestra, is showing his "Varsities of 1933." Sample line is the one about the brother down on the farm who seems to get more milk from the cowds than anyone else. Say, has that man get pull! Of course, the Metropolitan is becoming more than a theatre. Dancing in the Grand Lounge affords an agreeable interlude for those Jazz crazed youngsters unable to understand the classics of Sevitzky: who, by the way, is said to be Koussevitzky's nephew. Patrous taking in a matince can try their cigarette stained hands at ping pong. We have yet to investigate the rumors that there are piano selections and bridge lessons available some-where amid the marble pilasters.

Returning to "The King's Vacation" It may be described as an Arliss Success adequately supported by jazz and symphony orchestras, newsreels, and organ, and a dance hall.