TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 712, 11 July 1929, Page 17

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

“HIS CAPTIVE WOMAN” For a place in which to study human nature there is none superior to a courtroom, especially during a murder trial. For some reason this sort of case brings out more contrasting types than any other, and the queer streak of morbidness in most persons is developed there to a high degree. In “His Captive Woman,” a First Xational picture coming to the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres this evening, a big murder trial is one of the important features. The story is. briefly, that of a girl who kills a lover and escapes to the tropics. A typical cop is sent after her. He gets her away, but the ship is wrecked and they are cast away on a desert island, where they fall in love and are both regenerated. After a time they are rescued. and lie, being true to his duty and she acquiescent, now that she has reformed, brings her back for trial. The result forms a startling denouement. The types obtained for the court-room scenes are remarkable. Every kind, colour, degree of fortune, are there. Men and women, young and old, rich and poor, “handsome and ugly. George Fitzmaurice made this picture, which has Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill as the featured players. Much of the film made in the Hawaiian Islands. The second attraction at both theatres is Universal’s screen adaptation of the popular Rupert Hughes story, “The Girl on the Barge,” an epic of the Erie Canal. Jean Hersholt is the star, supported by pretty Sally O’Xeil and Malcolm MacGregor in featured roles. Edward Sloman directed this picture, bringing his company all the way from California to'upper New York State to get the correct barge canal atmosphere and settings. Hersholt. has the role of a crusty old barge captain, while Miss O'Xeil is his abused daughter to whom love comes in the form of a jaunty tugboat pilot, played by MacGregor.