PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 623, 27 March 1929, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“WHAT A NIGHT” TO-MORROW “Beggars of Life,” the dramatic | story of tramp life, starring Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, and Louise Brooks, will be shown at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres for the last time this evening, together with “Adoration,” the fascinating story of Russia and Paris, starring Billie Love. All comedy arises from incongruity, and the greater the contrast between ■—■ ... ■— the incongruous objects or persons the greater is the humuur. This is the OS JM theory of Edward Sutherland, the ~mm young motion l>icfßm JBBB ture director, best HT known for his hilarif*wHSS ous comedies with M Wallace Beery and ’ •• Raymond Hatton, vIIBHI including •'Behind ) ptig|| the Front” and ■ ■■■ mm ——J “We’re in the Navy Neil Hamilton Now.” . Sutherland directed Bebe Daniels, with Neil Hamilton, in her newest Paramount comedy, “What a Night, the picture which will head the new programme at these theatres tomorrow. “What a Night!” is about a fight I between a newspaper editor and a i crooked political faction, and into this i situation of pure melodrama the direc- j tor brought a girl who is completely incongruous. “We played the melodramatic story ‘straight,’ "or, in other words, seriously,” Mr. Sutherland said. "We started our story in just the same way ; that any newspaper or underworld melodrama would be started. “Then we introduced Miss Daniels. Bebe is a beautiful child, but foolish; willing, but awkward; eager, but not too bright. Before long the busy city j room of the newspaper is frantic in | trying to escape the office pest. In I this serious, hard-working, hectically | energetic environment, the slowthinking girl Is certainly incongruous. Her mistakes and her very appearance in this background are funny. The entire picture is played in the same way.” £ “Outcast,” Corinne Griffith's second stellar picture under her new First National contract, a screen version of the Broadway stage success of the same name, will be the second attraction to-morrow. “Outcast” is a complete change from Miss Griffith’s “Garden of Eden,” recently released. Delightful as that comedy was, the role of the little hoy- ! denish cafe girl who gets fired, and i poses as the daughter of a baroness, j thereby getting herself into all kinds ! of amusing complications, did not offer ! the high spots for emotional acting | that fall to Miss Griffith in “Outcast.” I where the central figure is a girl of ! the San Francisco streets—an outcast whose experiences and development j form a compelling and highly dramatic L vehicle.