THE PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 443, 27 August 1928, Page 14

THE PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“THE YELLOW LILY” A story of romance and intrigue in the royal courts of Hungary, entitled ‘“The Yellow Lily/* will be shown at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres again this evening. Billie Hove, the star, is ideal as the heroine of this interesting story. Clive Brook, the distinguished English film actor, is Miss Hove’s leading man in “The Yellow Lily.” He plays the role of an Hungarian Archduke, and has a powerful part in the unusual love story of the play. Gustav Yon Seyffertitz, famous character actor, portrays “Ivinkeline,” mysterious, subtle and powerful “right-hand-man,” and agent of the Archduke. Nicholas Soussanin, once famous on the Russian stage, appears as the heroine’s brother, a doctor in a small Hungarian village. The mayor 6f the village, a quaint comedy character, is portrayed by Charles Puffy, famous Hungarian comedian. Jane Winton is the flaming actress from Budapest, of whom the hero tires when he sees Miss Dove. Marc MacHermott and Eugenie Besserer are the Archduke and Archduchess Ludovici. The habits of Orientals who live in their own quarters in American cities are always of interest to the Occidental mind. San Francisco’s Chinatown has always been a Mecca for tourists, and the same in New York. Such scenes afford much of the background for “The Hawk’s Nest,” Milton Sills’s latest First National Picture, which is the second feature on the programme. Rival factions among the crooks of a big city, wherein the Chinese are involved, afford amazing glimpses into the strange underworld. Contrasting scenes show night clubs and private homes, gorgeous or stately as the case may be. This picture gives Sills a really remarkable characterisation in his role as the mysterious “Hawk,” a leader in the shadowy precincts. Horis Kenyon has the feminine leading role.