PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“RED HOT SPEED” The trials and tribulations of a young prosecuting lawyer who is conducting a campaign against speeders, only to fall in love with a chronic offender, a beautiful and wealthy girl, is the plot of “Red Hot Speed,” the hilariously funny Universal comedy now showing at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres. The picture is one of the best the popular star, Reginald Denny, has made for some time. Moving rapidly and with dozens of screamingly funny situations, “Red Hot Speed” provokes continuous gales of laughter from the audiences during its showing. Denny plays the role of a young attorney, pressing a court campaign against speeders. His troubles begin

when a pretty I society girl, arI raigned for speedj ing, is paroled in | his custody. She I happens to he the daughter of the I newspaper editor I backing the anti- | speeding campaign. I This complex situ- | ation leads to a y scries of hilarious scenes, in which Denny is trying to

- is ii j j vig iu prevent the girl’s father from finding out about her escapades. Alice Day is the girl. She; has a charming screep presence. Others in the cast are Thomas Ricketts as the editox*. Do Witt Jennings as the judg< , Fritzi Ridgeway as a slavey, Charles Byer and Hector V. Sarno. Tho second picture, “The Woman From Moscow.” is one of the intensely dramatic stories for which Pola Negri is noted. As Princess Fedora she comes to visit the castle of a Russian general, to whose son she is betrothed. ll© is found in a deserted house, shot, and Fedora and the general swear vengeance. When Loris IpanofE hurriedly leaves the country for Paris they suspect him. and Fedora follows him for pi-oof of his guilt. Shu falls in love with a stranger, who she learns later is Loris himself, lie proves to her that he had more than sufficient motive for the crime, but h€ is betrayed to the general. He accuses the princess, who, realising thal ti-agedy would always come betweer their love, takes poison, dying in his arms as he is convinced, too late, that she is innocent of his betrayal. The part of Loris Ipanoff is played by Norman Kerry. Henry B. Walthall, famous stage and screen character actor, has been clioser to play the role of Father Juniper ir “The Bridge of San Luis Key,” thf screen version of Thornton Wilder's prize-winning novel now in productior under the 'direction <>f Charles Brabii fit the Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer studios Lily Damita. Ernest Torrence. Raque Torres and Jane Winton are also in th<