GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 15

GRAND AND LYRIC

“REVENGE” The tale of a fiery gipsy girl, entitled “Revenge,” is Dolores Del Rio’s latest picture, and is now at both the Grand and Lyric Theatres. The story opens in the Carpathian Mountains, where Rascha, a gipsy girl, wild and untamed , lives with her father, Costa, the most famous bear tamer in all Europe. To Costa’s camp come nomadic bands of gipsies to buy trained bears, too woo and wed, to make meny with wine and dance and song. At the gipsy campfire. Rascha dances a wild, fierce dance. Her fla.sixing eyes and sinuous body attract Stefan, a young gipsy plighted to wed Tina, daughter of Jancu, who has promised him a bear as his dowry. Stefan falls a prey to Kascha s fire and passion, forgetting his promise to marry Tina. Rascha soon tires of Stefan, and despising his for his weakness as a lover, sends him back to Tina, but that precipitates gipsy rivalries and feuds, the fierce hatreds and wild loves of a passionate people. An excellent supporting programme is shown at both theatres headed by the film, "Blue Skies.” “FORGOTTEN FACES” AT ROYAL The story of an ex-criminal's fight to protect his daughter is revealed in “Forgotten Faces,” now at the Royal Theatre, Kingsland. Clive Brook, an English actor, has the role of “Heliotrope Harry,” who leaves his baby daughter on the doorstep of a wealthy residence just before serving a long terra of imprisonment. The girl is brought up knowing nothing of her parents, but her mother, out of jealousy, tries to drag her down. To prevent this Heliotrope Harry uses every means at his disposal to frighten her away from the daughter he loves, but dares not see. Olga Baclanova and William Powell also have leading roles. The second feature is “The Michigan Kid,” an exciting story of the lawless days of the Alaskan gold rush. Renee Adoree and Conrad Xagel are the stars. The combination that produced "Two Arabian Knights”—Louis Wolheim, William Boyd and Lewis Milestone—will again combine their talents, this time in an all-talking comedy, “Take It Easy.” Lupe Velez will follow up her work in D. W. Griffith’s latest picture, “Lady of the Pavements,” by appearing in the leading feminine role in this new film. Louis Wolheim is one of the best known actors in Hollywood, having appeared in the stage version of “What Price Glory” and “The Jest. William Boyd was' the star of "The Volga Boatman.”