LUNA PARK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 15

LUNA PARK

OPEN EVERY EVENING Luna Park. New Zealand’s Coney Island, has been very popular recently, and the many fun devices have been thronged with happy holiday-makers. The Park is open every evening and on Saturday afternoons. The Palais de Danse is also open every evening*

Prominent newspaper critics are of the opinion that Emil Jannings’s performance in his latest Paramount preduction for release in New Zealand. “The Patriot,” has done much to establish the motion picture as one of the arts. Another masterly performance is also given by Lewis Stona

Mr. D. W. Griffith lias completed “Masquerade, a story of the FrancoPrussian war and the court of Napoleon 111. William Boyd has the principal male role, that of Erich von Arnim of the German Embassy. Jetta Goudal is seen as Diane, demi-mon-daine in the royal entourage. Lupe Velez is a cafe singer. George Fawcett, the General in “Tempest,” is head of the German Embassy. Albert Conti plays the French chamberlain.

“The Pleasure Buyers,” the Warner Bros, classic of the screen starring Irene Rich, is announced as a mysterythriller guaranteed to baffle anyone. The picture concerns itself with the shooting of Eugene Cassenas as he is sitting in a chair in his luxurious home at a gay society resort. The shot has been fired from the dark outside through a window. Circumstantial evidence points to six persons M’hose lives have been involved in the dark web of reckless immoralities that has been woven into Cassenas's career. Miss Rich appears as one of those under suspicion. Others in the cast are Clive Brook, Gayne Whitman. June Marlowe. Charles Conklin. Don Alvarado. Edward Piel, Frank Campeau, Wuptec , HaU and Frank Leigh.