PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“LOVE MART” TO-MORROW Lovers of swordplay, with rapier, foil or broadsword, will be entertained royally at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres to-morrow, where “The Love Mart,” George Fitzmaurice’s production for First National Pictures, with Billie Dove, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery, will be the attraction. Billie Dove has many romantic love scenes and emotional moments; while Roland, in the masculine lead; Armand Kaliz, as a Creole fashion-plate; and others, indulge in the gentle art of fencing with brilliancy and prowess. There is also some exciting broadsword play with slave-running p# ates in the early sequences. Noah Beery plays the part of a husky and belligerent slave-runner, a typical corsair. Raymond Turner is a funny negro body servant. The scenes are exquisite and dramatic in turn, and throughout there is a vein of romance that is inseparable from New Orleans more than a hundred years ago. Resorting to the cleverest ruse ever used in the profession, two gangs of crooks from New York’s underworld invade the haunts of millionaires in the latest Universal - Jewel production, “Cheating Cheaters,” also to be shown to-morrow, when they endeavour to stage a great jewel robbery under a cloak of innocence. Betty Compson plays the most intriguing role of her career when she vamps Kenneth Harlan, and she alone is responsible for the much-tangled affair which makes this picture so exceedingly interesting from the opening title to the final fade-out. Romance, comedy and thrills galore make up one of the greatest combinations ever introduced in a crook production. The other members in the “crooked” cast are Maude Turner Gordon, Sylvia Ashton, Erwin Connelly, Eddie Gribbon, E. J. Ratcliffe, Lucien Littlefield and Cesare Gravina. “Cheating Cheaters” is adapted from the famous stage play of the same name, written by Max Marc in. The picture was directed by Edward Laemmle.