PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

BIG PROGRAMME ON THURSDAY “The Romance of Hinemoa,” a New Zealand-made film, will have its premiere on Thursday at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres. The “Sunday Pictorial” writes of this picture: “By far the most fascinating picture shown last week was ‘The Romance of Hinemoa,’ a brilliant example of all that a truly Empire film should be, and the first film to be made entirely in New Zealand. The dramatic theme is a beautiful Maori legend. All the playfers are Maoris. The settings in the volcanic areas of Northern New Zealand have never been equalled in any other picture. It is appropriate that one of our finest Empire cinematgrophers, Gustav Pauii, should have found in this legend the subject of the first picture to be made in New Zealand, and that in making it he shpuld have photographed the beauties of New Zealand in a manner beyond all praise.” What gives promise of being one of the most unusual and appealing film productions of the year is also to be shown at the Princess and Tivoli in “Alias the Deacon,” the Universal picture starring Jean Uersholt. Directed by Edward Sloman, noted for his human and intensely real pictures, “Alias the Deacon’’ tells a simple story of a picturesque character. The story proved a tremendous success in its long scage presentation in almost every city in America, and with Jean Hersholt, one of the most celebrated actors on the screen, in the rich role of the gambler who covers his real occupation under the benign exterior of a deacon, a very worthwhile picture should be the result. In addition to the character star, the cast of the picture includes Ralph Graves, June Marlowe, Myrtle Stedman, Lincoln Plummer, Ned Sparks, Maurice Murphy, Tom Kennedy and others.

Sidney Franklin, who recently directed Marion Davies in ‘Quality Street,” a screen version of Sir James Barrie’s play, will direct Norma Shearer in “Trelawney of the Wells” for Metro-Golwyn-Mayer. Ralph Forbes will play the leading male role in this adaptation of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s play of the same name.