PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 14

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

MILTON SILLS TO-MORROW A most delightful picture of Irish and of Jew, of comedy, and of pathos, is “Cohens and Kellys in Paris,” which will be shown at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres for the last time tonight. The Cohens and Kellys, grown rich in business partnership, love each other; but they love to battle with each other, too. When pretty Sayde Cohen announces her engagement to young Pat Kelly in Paris, their fathers are right in the middle of one of their feuds, and both are determined to stop the marriage of their only child to the offspring of a dirty loafer, so they take the same boat to Paris to stop the wedding. “Confetti,” a delightful story of carnival time in Nice, will also be shown. Commencing to-morrow, there will be shown at both theatres a story full of the spirit of adventure, “Burning Daylight,” starring Milton Sills. A film version of one of the most popular novels from the pen of Jack London, “Burning Daylight” is a story of the stirring gold-rush period in Alaska. London himself was in Alaska during the discovery of gold in Dawson in 1898, and has drawn what many persons declare is the most graphic description ever written of those times. Milton Sills, in the starring role, has a particularly powerful characterisation as “Daylight,” the ’boldest and most courageous prospector in all Alaska. Doris Kenyon plays the feminine lead, and a large cast is in support. With its locale in Alaska during the hectic days of the gold rush, the action of the story is essentially pictorial, and the camera has caught many scenes of the frozen plains and the struggle of humans with the primitive elements more innately dramatic than any clash of gentler souls in cities. The second attraction to be presented to-morrow will be “Wofi in the Clouds,” an exciting aviation story starring AI Wilson, America’s greatest stunt flyer. The story deals with an Ace Flyer who visits islands inhabited by cannibals, just for the lure of adventure. While there he is Instrumental in rescuing a girl and her father from a tribe of marieaters, but it is only by wonderful flying that he was able to get away.