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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 14

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“MORAN OF THE MARINES" If Michael Moran (Richard Dj** stays out of trouble until his unc J ■ rives in San Francisco, he is = a job with his uncle’s construction co ’ pans- in China. He docsn t. His un finds him in gaol. He has got mt > * fight in ;t cafe protecting \ ivian M _ shall (Ruth Klder) from ati' annoyirdrunk. lie manages to learn her_na* and that sshe is going to China, doesn’t find out that she is the aaubter of a marine general. . That is the setting of th ® Richard Vix P»ture. “Moran of t* Marines,” “ will be shown 2 t h e NationTheatre this evenin Uncle Pa‘ r; - disinherits Mori so he and his P>; •■•Swatty.” *»“'• as marine P r ' vates. Moran. > n civilian clo^ meets Vivian «?' at a daiice. * next day slio attends inspection *.. her father, and sees him as a w recruit and a clumsy one at tn ’ For revenge, she has him as*®"!: to orderly duty at her father s b There Moran kisses her, and t. it. The kissing is seen by Basil a diplomatic corps attache, an ,. h '« t . captain. They charge Moran . tacking the general’s daughter, ... court-martialled and receives a sentence. Vivian can’t save him » cause he pleads guilty, thinKinie has turned him down. After th however, sho succeeds in heavy sentence lightened to sl * nt to Orders come from the regn« sail for China, and that’s where fun starts. .. a* Among tho smaller films tll V uc jjar interesting picture of the a Anniversary Regatta last Tuesday* of the labour picnic on Pine ' ln >■» Musical arrangements will as® in the hands of Mr. F. Bartlett * liis augmented orchestra. Ramon Novarro is making a g ea -. of the tribal music of the and will arrange several natn e . which he plans to sing fo r s - ojetrotail in “The Pagan,” his new Goldwyn-Mayer starring v a en the dibeing filmed in Tahiti under to £v rection of W. S. Van e ' jbe Janis and Renee Adoree na' leading feminine roles in I picture.