THE PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 15

THE PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“DANCING VIENNA” It would be difficult to find a member of the public in this country who is not attracted by music of some

description. V Within recent years jazz has become the favourite of many, but there still exists a large number who show a great appreciation for the oldtime waltz. The contrast between these two styles is the theme of the picture, “Dancing Vienna,” now being shown at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres.

Briefly a young girl who is unhappy in her home is loved by a young man whose ideas on music are confined to midnight blarings on the saxophone. She uses waltz tunes to convey her feelings to the young fellow, who replies in jazz.

The girl’s mother has beer} a musichall singer and the young fellow visits the cabaret where the old-time performer scored her greatest triumphs. It is decided to hold a gala night to help the old proprietor. The father of the young man divining the romance which is growing apace, tries to break off the affair.

He attempts to make the girl, who is to perform, and is a beautiful dancer, look ridiculous by buying ail the seats of the gala performance and only using two seats, leaving the others empty. The method by which the public overcome the difficulty is a surprising The girl’s performance is received with delight and the applause is tremendous. In a revue later the young fellow joins his beloved on the stage in a Viennese waltz. It is the triumph of waltz over jazz. Eventually past differences are forgotten ,and the curtain falls admid general happiness. Affection, loyalty, courage and intelligence are portrayed with almost human fidelity by “Dynamite,” _ the police-dog star, in “Call of the Heart,” a Universal Western feature photoplay, which is the second attraction. Edmund Cobb plays the leading role. The story revolves around Molly O’Day, an orphan, who, with her younger brother, is striving to comiflete the title to a Western homestead, the sole heritage of their father, who had laid his life down in the struggle against the wilderness. A film of the great Eucharistic Congress in Sydney heads the supporting programme.