TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 680, 4 June 1929, Page 15

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

NEW PICTURES ON THURSDAY Only two more occasions remain for Auckland to see the fine double-fea-ture programme now* at the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres. This includes the daring picture of youth at a big American college, entitled “Red Lips,” and starring Marian Nixon and Charles Rogers, also “Children of the Ritz,” an hilarious story of New York’s ultra-ricli. starring the popular comedy team of Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. New wildest party, the annual Beaux Arts Ball at Webster Hall, has been introduced in Reginald Denny’s new starring vehicle, “The Night Bird,” to be shown at these theatres on Thursday. Denny, with Corliss Palmer playing the role of a so-called Love Bandit, puts on one of the funniest dancing acts ever screened. Thousands of toy balloons, miles of paper streamers and hundreds of pounds of confetti were consumed dur-

ing the week spent filming this sequence. A large orchestra and talented entertainers completed the atmosphere. Denny appears in the role of a prize fighter whose promoter believes that appearing in the city’s night life will increase the box office at his fights. So he forces the woman-shy fighter to attend the Beaux Arts Ball among other hilarious episodes. The second feature on Thursday will be “Love and the Devil.” Some very beautiful scenes for this picture were made on a Venetian set at the studios. These are remarkable for their realism, and it would take an expert to detect that these were not actual scenes taken in the exquisite | Venice. Maria Corda as the feminine j lead appears as the Italian prima donna, who is ardently wooed by Sills 1 as an English explorer. Sills during • the shooting of these sequences was 1 called upon to master all the eccentricities of a gondola and learned to mal:* the picturesque conveyance do everything he wished.