TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 716, 16 July 1929, Page 17

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

TWO FINE PICTURES The exotic beauty of the South Sea» is brought to the screen in vivid marner in First .National’s “His Captive Woman/’ now at The Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres. Adapted from the Donn Uyrac story. “Changeling,” this dramatic story has its locale in the night clubs ot New York and on the dreamy islands of the •South Seas. It is a George Fitzmaurice production in which -Doxothv Mackaill a«<l Milton Sills are co-featured. The company spent many weeks on tt»e i more remote islands of the Hawaiian group with only natives in support of the featured players. The story deals with a jazz-mad New York girl who in a fit of temper kills an admirer and dees to the South Seas on a yacht of another man. She is pursued by a New York policeman and the adventures of the two in the Pacific make a highly dramatic story that culminates in a courtroom of great power. Miss Mackaill is cast as the girl and Sills as the policeman. The splendid supporting cast includes Marion Byron and George Fawcett. The second feature, “The Girl on the Barge,” is outstanding for many reasons, one of which is the fact that it was photographed with tlie actual backgrounds called for by the story—- ! the barge canals in Upper New York •State. The director took his company : all tlie way from California to photograph the players in the correct barge atmosphere. The result is a succes- | sion of realistic and picturesque scenes. The story concerns a crusty and dominant coal barge captain, played by Jean Hersliolt. who lives on his barge with his four motherless children. the oldest a girl in her teen>, played by Sally O’Neil. Jle rules wit.lt an iron hand. Sally turns from hi< harshness to the arras of a handsome tugboat pilot, played by Malcolm Ma* Gregor. This creates havoc in the barge captain’s life. His rage against the pilot and their physical encoun - ters make exciting drama. The story rises to a stirring climax in a strong storm scene in which the pilot display < extraordinary heroism and wins the old barge man's admiration and forgiveness. Apparently the “talkies ’ are nor «_on- ! tent with robbing the stage of its i choicest stars. They are now going I after the grand opera field as well. | Fox Films Corporation have just signed j John McCormack, the famous tenor, j to make a singing and talkie picture, the exterior scenes for which will made in Ireland. Cyril McLaglen, shortly to be seen I in “Underground “ is one of the seven I McLaglen Brothers acting for the screen. Six of them act for British pictures, while the seventh, Victor. i~.

already famous on the American screen. Cyril has just completed th« starring role in the super-film “Balaclava,” a film with sound effects, and he has Benito Home; the little star of “South Sea Bubble, co-starring wiut him.