PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

NEW PROGRAMME TO-MORROW

The charming Clara Bow picture, “Three Week Ends,” will be shown at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres fo.r the last time this evening. What happens to a man’s soul when he finds himself in midocean, alone with a girl of the underworld, adrift, hungry, thirsty and baked by a broiling sun? A man who had not believed in God or man? This is the problem that is solved in dramatic fashion in “Scarlet Seas,” the latest, feature, starring Richard Barthelmes, which comes to these theatres to-morrow. This sto.ry of ad- ' venture on the high seas was written by Scott Barling. It was directed by John Francis Dillon, whose record with “The Noose,” one of Barthelmess’s greatest hits, gave him an enviable reputation. Barthelmess is supported by an exBetty Compson ceptionally capable cast headed by Betty Compson in the feminine lead and Loretta \ oung as the featured ingenue. The heavy role is enacted by Jack Curtis, who is fast becoming one of the meanest villains on the screen, while colourful roles are played by Knute Erickson, James. Bradbury, sen., and Larry Fisher. Poor but honest movie heroes are only a step more popular than, rich but honourable movie heroes, according to Jack Mulhall. The popular featured player, who in First National pictures alone has played many of each kind of these characters, prefers to be rich but honourable. So he is well pleased with his part in “Naughty Baby,” the hilarious comedy-drama, with filmdom’s newest flapper flame, Alice White, which will be the second attraction to-morrow. Mulhall is co-featured with Miss White, who as a blonde check girl in a fashionable hotel “ropes him in,” but saves him from a more designing vamp. An unusually large supporting cast of beautiful and gifted women and talented male actors appear with Mulhall and Miss White in “Naughty Babv.” The cast is headed by Thelma Todd, Doris Dawson. James Ford and Fred Kelsey.