PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 17

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

NEW PICTURES TO-MORROW This evening will see the final screening at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres of “Scarlet Seas,” the stirring sea story starring Kicliard Barthelmess, also the gay New York comedy, “Naughty Baby,” starring Alice White and Jack Mul hall. The popular misconception that Alaska is a country of continuous winter, ice and snow, is refuted in Universal’s screen version of Rex Beach’s famous novel, “The Michigan Kid,” starring Renee Adoree and Conrad Nagel, which will be screened at these theatres to-morrow. “The Michigan Kid” is a thrilling tale of Alaska during the gold rush and takes place almost entirely during the summer. According to Rex Beach, the summer climate of coastal Alaska is as warm as that of the northern part of the United States because the ocean currents which pass the territory sweep up from the tropics past Japan and over to North America bringing with them a temperate climate along the Pacific coast. The only snow appearing in the photoplay is on the mountain peaks. The interior of the country, however, is Arctic and in the winter both the coast and interior become intensely cold.

Conrad Nagel played parts in a small troupe that toured Alaska ten years ago and declares that the settings used in the screen play are perfect reproductions of buildings appearing in an Alaskan mining town. .The supporting cast in “The Michigan Kid” includes Lloyd Whitlock, Bred Eamelton, Adolph Milar. Maurice Murphy, Virginia Urey and Dick Palm. A second big attraction to be presented to-morrow will be “Synthetic Sin,” the latest and most amusing picture by Colleen Moore. In this production she has the role of an innocent stage-struck girl seeking -sin as a background for her career. Antonio Moreno has the chief supporting role. The supporting pictures will be of the usual high standard.