PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 635, 11 April 1929, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“SCARLET SEAS” AND “NAUGHTY BABY” Two bis pictures make up the new programme to be presented at both the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres this evening. The first is **Searlet Seas,” a colourful and fascinating sea story starring Richard Barthelmess. “Scarlet Seas” presents Richard Barthelmess in the role of Steve Donkin, a wanderer of the Seven Seas, fearing neither God nor man, a law unto himself, a cynic and an unbeliever. He shanghaies the girl he wants, takes her aboard his ship and out to sea. Fire and a shipwreck place him and the girl alone in mid-ocean in a lifeboat, faced by hunger, madness and death. Ifow they effect self-rescue aboard a mutiny ship, what they saw there, and their regeneration forms the plot of this dramatic story. An exceptional cast supports Barthelmess. For the first time Betty Comp s o n is seen playing opposite the star, with Loretta Young in the featured ingenue role. Miss Compson has been a star in her own right and has built up an enormous following since her sensational work ’ several years ago in Loretta Young “The Miracle Man.” Loretta Young is a young miss discovered by First Xational and seen recently in the feminine lead with Lon Chaney in “Laugh, Clown, Laugh.” The villainy of “Scarlet Seas” is perpetrated by Jack Curtis, whose evil eye has made him one of the deepest-dyed “bad men” of the screen. The “pious old hypocrite” role of Johnson in “Scarlet Seas” is enacted by James Bradbury, senr., a character inan of popularity both on stage and screen. Other important roles are essayed by Ivnute Erickson and Fred O'Beck. The second big* picture is “Xaughty Baby,” a bright and ultra-modern story of Xew York starring Alice White and Jack Mulhall. The story tells of Rosalind McGill, a hat checker at the Ritz. She and her pal, Polly, are determined to catch rich husbands. When Terry Vandeveer, of Boston, with his friend. Tippy Grayson, stops at the Ritz, Rosie “borrows” an expensive cloak from the check-room and succeeds in. bumping into Terry and attracting his attention. She learns that Terry is to spend the week-end at Long Beach and persuades her “three musketeers*” Joe, Izzy and Tony, who vie for her favours, to take her there. One “borrows” a RollsRoyce, another a bathing suit. Rosie meets Terry and they go swimming; but Rosie's “swell” bathing suit rips, tears and dissolves so that she is obliged to keep far out till a blanket is brought by Terry and the life guards. A reporter photographs them

and the paper carries a story of the Boston millionaire’s rescue of a •‘mysterious society girl” from the same Interesting supporting pictures are shown and excellent musical accompaniment provided at both theatres.