PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 14

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

NEW PROGRAMME TO-MORROW The current programme at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres, which includes "The Docks of New York,” starring George Bancroft, and ‘The Phantom City,” starring Ken Maynard, will be shown for the last time this evening. Reginald Denny’s most hilarious comedy, "Red Hot Speed,” will be the unusually attractive offering of these theatres to-morrow. It is a story which everyone will appreciate, with natural human comedy and a collection of gay, new “gags.” Denny appears in the role of a young assistant district attorney who handles the cases in the speedsters’ court. Every person who ever rode in an auto or who was ever menaced by a motor-cycle cop; or wants to own a oar, will appreciate the splendid comedy of this. A newspaper editor launches an anti-speeding campaign and his daughter is tagged. She gives a fake name. Denny denounces her recklessness in court so uie juage places her in his custody. Then he learns who she is and she pleads with him not to tell her father, for fear he will send her back to boarding school. That is where the fun begins. Alice Day the daughter. Thomas Ricketts enacts the .role of the editor and De Witt Jennings plays the judge of the speedste.rs’ court. Fritzi Ridgeway plays the role of the girl who impersonates the paroled speeder to help the others out of a difficulty only to get them into worse trouble. There are many who aspire for screen fame who struggle for years to attain it. but there is one popular leading man who had fame thrust upon him. The player is Norman Kerry, who plays opposite Pola Negri in the latter’s starring Paramount picture entitled “The Woman Prom Moscow,’- which will also be shown to-morrow. * Pola Negri's latest Paramount production, "The Woman From Moscow,” is based on the famous stage play, "Fedora.” It is interesting to note that a quartette of well-known players are included in the cast, namely Lawrence Grant. Jack Luden, Otto Matiesou and Bodil Rosing. The famous German director, Ludwig Berger, who was brought to Hollywood by Paramount specially to direct Pola Negri, had charge of the production.

Mr. Allan Wilkie has to his credit the production of several Shakespearian plays in the Dominion for their first staging here, and during the present season both “Coriolanus” and “All’s Well That Ends Well” make their initial appearance in Auckland. To tour 26 plays of Shakespeare some 10,000 miles in a year must be something of a record.