PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

DOUBLE FEATURE BILL “THE LOVE MART” The fare at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres, though always good, is something out of the ordinary this week as the management has arranged a double attraction. “The Love Mart,” with Gilbert Roland and Billie Love in the leading roles, is a stirring story of the “good” old days of the .early nineteenth century, when slave-running was the source of many a lucrative income. ‘The Love Mart” was adapted by Benjamin Glazer from a story by Edward Childs Carpenter, and concerns a stirring romance of a beautiful Creole maiden in the valiant times of old New Orleans when pirates and slave-run-ners infested the Gulf and made life a hazardous experience. Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery and a large cast of notable players support the principals with great success. The old inn, in which the most exciting action of the picture takes place, was constructed from an old ship grounded on the sands at New Orleans; the slave market, the gay Tivoli cafe; the streets of the old French quarter of the romantic city; the fencing academy—these and other effective scenes make the film one that satisfies the eye, even as the story satisfies the mind. “Cheating Cheaters” is one of the best comedy-dramas of the season. Betty Compson finds herself in a new part as a pseudo-crook. Kenneth Harlan’s proclivities as a strong man, in both the physical and the mental sense, are again exemplified in as thrilling a manner as the most exacting theatregoer could desire. The venue of the story is the intriguing American criminal world, and the picture has not a dull moment throughout its length.