PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 575, 30 January 1929, Page 17

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

NEW PROGRAMMES TO-MORROW The excellent programme now being presented at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres will be screened for the last time this evening. This includes “Oh Kay,” a Colleen Moore picture based on the famous musical comedy, also “Poppies of Flanders,” a fine British picture based on an original story by ’“Sapper.” With two of the most famous male stars in motion pictures, Norman Kerry and Lewis Stone, and two of the most attractive girls, Mary Nolan and June Marlowe, teamed in “The Foreign Legion.” patrons of the Plaza Theatre only will be enabled to see this cinematic treat starting on Thursday. It is a stirring drama of soldiers and love in the desert.

The colourful Algerian desert and the drawing-rooms of London comprise the principal locales of the story, which is promised to be the most colourful and dramatic of all the films directed by Edward Sloman, maker of “His People,” “Alias the Deacon,” and other dramatic front rankers.

June Marlowe, as the brunette sweetheart, and Mary Nolan, as the blonde heart-wrecker, supply the picture with all kinds of romance. Craufurd Kent arid Walter Perry have the other important roles.

The story was written by I. A. R. Wylie, famous novelist and expert in exotic heart drama, and was published as “The Red Mirage/’ The utmost of care was taken to .retain its original .ideas, and Charles Kenyon, one of Hollywood’s leading scenarists, was engaged by Universal to adapt and scenaris© the story.

Previews of the picture have made the management of this theatre enthusiastic in the certainty that “The Foreign - Legion” will please all types of audiences.

At the Tivoli Theatre only a fine picture, entitled “Ladybird,” starring Betty Thomson and Malcolm McGregor, will be shown, also two new episodes of the popular “Collegians” pictures.