LAURA LA PLANTE AT EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 15

LAURA LA PLANTE AT EMPIRE

“Thanks for the Buggy Ride,” a picture written around the song of that title, will be shown at the Empire Theatre this evening. .Laura La Plante at her prettiest and Glen Tryon at his funniest are the two lovers who face the cold world without a penny and decide to get married as soon as they can make a few thousand pounds in a grand clean-up. The youth is a genius and knows it. The girl who loves him does not doubt it. The world, however—well, you know how the world is. He gets a brilliant idea and they decide to buy a house with it and settle down. But this leaves them as far as ever from being able to settle up- “ Under the Black Eagle,” starring Marceline Bay and Ralph Forbes in a story of the German Army, is the second feature. The story of the first Paramount production starring the famous French vaudeville artist, Maurice Chevalier, has been written by Ernest Vadja, the author of many Paramount pictures. Chevalier will start work in the near future. Alfred Hitchcock will be entirely responsible for “The Manxman,” by Sir Hall Caine, both in respect to the production and the scenario. Carl Brisson is playing Pete, and Estelle Brody, one of the most vivacious artistes on the screen, is the female star. The exterior scenes will be made in the Isle of Man.