TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 657, 8 May 1929, Page 14

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

“HONEYMOON FLATS” This evening- will see the final sereening of the current programme at the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres. This includes “Marquis Preferred,’ a typical Adolphe Menjou comedy, also “Eileen of the Trees,” starring Anney Ondra and William Freshman. The screen version of Earl Derr Biggers’s recent “Saturday Evening Post” short story, “Honeymoon Flats,” will open at these theatres to-morrow, with George Lewis and Dorothy Gulliver co-starring. From the author’s exceptionally clever narrative of newly married life, the director has created a motion picture which fairly bubbles with the effervescence and joy of youth. The story concerns a young married couple, the boy an ambitious young man anxious to succeed in business and to support his wife on his salary, the girl the daughter of wealthy parents who insist on donating gifts to the couple to enable their daughter to live in her accustomed style. Needless to say, many spats occur between the “in-laws.” These are all deliciously handled in a manner skilfully guided to heighten comedy. The cast contains many names familiar to those who know their motion picture history. Among them are two silver-sheet veterans who formerly were stars in their own rights—Kathlyn Williams and Bryant Washburn. Also there are Phillips Smalley, once a famous director; Ward Crane, who has been playing suave villains for 15 years; Jane Winton, beautiful Follies girl who left the New York stage two years ago; Patricia Caron, who left George White’s scandals less than a year ago and Eddie Phillips, the young heavy of “The Collegians.” The second attraction at both theatres to-morrow will be “Week-End Comedy.” starring the inimitable Monty Banks in one of his most uproarious stories.