PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 581, 6 February 1929, Page 14

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

NEW PICTURES TO-MORROW

“The Foreign Legion," a powerful drama of love and hate in the desert, starring Louis Stone, Norman Kerry and Mary Nolan, will be shown at the Plaza Theatre for the last time this evening, Charlie Murray rises from the ranks to a police lieutenant’s stripes, is demoted and then wins back his chevrons in "Do Your Duty," the rollicking comedy that comes to both the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres to-morrow. It is a First National picture, and pretty Doris Dawson plays the feminine lead, with Charlie Delaney opposite her. Murray is framed by crooks in the story. He appears to have been drunk on duty and is demoted. Then he catches the crooks and regains his lost glory. But meanwhile his daughter is being married, and he hides his temporary disgrace by subtle manoeuvrtV In these he Is abetted by a Scottish tailor and finally wins out with nobody In his family the wiser. A modern battleship Is the interesting setting of “The Night Watch,” starring Billie Dove, which will also be shown to-morrow. Almost the entire battleship was reproduced for close-up scenes by the ingenuity of the set designers within the studio stages, the settings being exact duplicates of similar portions of a real cruiser, so that they would match with the scenes actually made aboard ship. The set included staterooms, the officers’ rness. engine-rooms, gun turrets, the bridge and lastly, an enormous set reproducing the deck of the ship.