PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“HEART OF A FOLLIES GIRL” ‘‘The Heart of a Follies Girl,” which is now being shown at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres, is a story of the love of a dancing girl in the Follies Show. To Derek Calhoun (Larry Kent), a Follies Queen is different from all other girls. Dangerous, fascinating, alluring, only men with millions dare tread the same carpet with her. So he steals to compete with millionaires for the hand of Teddy O’Day (Billie Dove), a Follies favourite, and takes her to night clubs, parties and cabarets. Teddy falls madly in love with Derek. The expensive gifts offered to Teddy by her many rich admirers in general and Rogers Winthrop (Lowell Sherman) in particular prove very tempting to her, but not enough to move the great love she has for Derek. Winthrop, learning that the boy who stands between him and Teddy is a crook, has him sent to gaol for a long stretch. And so a great love seems about to come to a bitter close. Can a beautiful Follies star remain true to a gaolbird while millionaires lavish presents on her? Will the lure of New York’s night life make her forget her promise of eternal love, or does the heart of a Follies girl respond to the same true love as the heart of any other girl? These are the questions answered in “The Heart of a Follies Girl.”

The second feature on the programme, while of an entirely different style, is also excellent entertainment. It is “The Canyon of Adventure,” starring Ken Maynard in a typically virile Western role.

The story provides Maynard with the atmosphere and opportunities to display to the best advantage his daring and marvellous horsemanship. The main theme is of the huge land grants given to the dons and grandees of old California when that State was under Spanish rule, and of efforts of the United States Government to establish these land grants by registration before California’s entry into the Union. The plots and counterplots serve to keep one in suspense from the first flash to the final fade-out, and makes this the fastest moving feature this popular star has ever made. The outdoor scenery which is always a big feature of Maynard’s pictures, takes in many of the old historical and scenic spots of the West. Many of the California missions, adobe forts and ancient vineyards, built and cared for by the Franciscan monks, are shown.

An all star cast in Virginia Browne Faire, Eric Mayne, Theo Lorch and William Franey, as well as Tarzan the wonder horse, are in support.