TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 14

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

“THE GIRL ON THE BARGE” “The Girl on the Barge,” now at the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres, is a story of young love along the Erie Canal, and the picture actually was photographed along the picturesque waterways in upper New York State. The director took the principals and a large technical staff all the way from California to get the correct backgrounds. Jean Hersholt, and Sally O’Neill are the stars. The plot concerns a hard-drinking but religiously devout Scottish barge captain with four motherless children. Erie, the oldest daughter, falls in love with the pilot of the tugboat which draws the barge upon which she lives. This enrages her father, who causes the pilot’s dismissal. After a severe beating, Erie deserts the barge and flees to the pilot’s rooms ashore, but is dragged back to her unhappy home after seeing her sweetheart cruelly battered by her father’s powerful fists. How the pilot’s bravery, during a terrific storm in which the barge is threatened by destruction, saves the lives of the barge captain’s family and wins his admiration, makes an exciting and fitting climax to the picture. “His Captive Woman.” in which Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills are is the second attraction at both theatres.

A man is murdered by a woman, who escapes to the tropics and a typical New York policeman is sent after her. He falls in love with her and she with him, but he brings her back for trial just the same. It is a mighty and dramatic story. An Ohio cross roads general store, presided over by Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin, sister and brother, is the setting for the opening of one of the weirdest mystery stories built around comedy characters that has ever been filmed. It is called “The House of Horror” and is a First National picture, coming to both these theatres tomorrow. A mysterious stranger brings a summons for the couple to come to New York to visit an aged uncie, an antique collector and a miserly recluse. Once inside that strange combination of store and house, things happen that keep Louise and Chester in a lather of excitement.