PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“SHOW GIRL” TO-MORROW “Out of the "Ruins,” the Richard Barthelmess picture of France during and after the war, will be screened at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres for the last time this evening, as will also the comedy .“Anyone Here Seen Kelly?” The rewards of fame—or. notoriety—in this day of enlightenment and civilisation, receive satirical treatment in “Show Girl,” the Alfred Santell production with Alice White, which comes to the Plaza and Tivoli to-morrow. As a dancer in a night club and later the star of a musical show, the principal character of the story tastes the rewards of publicity when, she becomes involved in a shooting escapade during a Broadway party. Immediately she receives a flood of telegrams, letters and messages bearing offers from various theatrical enterprises, cash offers to endorse chewing gum, stockings, lingerie and automobiles, opportunties ;o sell the rights to her life story and proposals of marriage from unknown suitors. J. P. McEvoy is the author of “Show Girl,” and as salesman, reporter and writer for the stage, he knows his Broadway so well he couldn’t resist the temptation to touch upon one of its best-known idiocies. “Show Girl” is a First National special production, with Charles Delaney, Donald Reed, Lee Moran, Gwen Lee, Kate Price, Richard Tucker, James Finlayson and others in the cast. McEvoy’s novel was published in book form immediately after its serialisation in Liberty Magazine and at once became the year’s sensation in the literary world. The second attraction to-morrow will be “How to Handle Women,” the latest Glenn Tryon comedy. Tr. on takes the role of a big-hearted country boy who became a prince overnight.