PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 718, 18 July 1929, Page 15

PLAZA

“LOVE NEVER DIES” Only this evening remains for Aucklanders to see and hear the exciting talkie mystery ‘’The Terror,” based on Edgar Wallace’s play, which has been thrilling audiences at the Plaza Theatre during the past few weeks. A number of excellent supporting talkies are being shown on the same programme. “Love Never Dies,” the spectacular aerial production which comes to the Plaza tomorrow, is the sort of a story that motion picture actresses’ dreams are made of, according to Colleen Moore, who has the star role. When Miss Moore and John McCormick, who produces her pictures, read the play manuscript of “Love Never Dies,” which was previously called “Lilac Time,” they both knew instantly it was the story of which they had dreamed, but hardly dared hope to find.- | Its spirit of youth, its tenderness and its glowing romance gripped them as no other story had ever done, and McCormick immediately opened negotiations with the authors of the play. The screen rights were purchased and it was made with full sound-synchron-isation by the Vitaphone process. “Love Never Dies” is a George Fitzmaurice production for First National Pictures, and tells of the romance of a little French girl and a reckless young British war aviator. In the opinion of critics, it more than justifies the producer’s judgment and the many months spent in filming it. Gary Cooper, hero of “Beau Sabreur, “Tho Legion of the Condemned” and other pictures, appears in the chief supporting role. Other players include Burr Mclntosh, George Cooper, Cleve Moore, Kathryn McGuire, Eugenie Begserer, Emile Chautard, Jack Stone and Edward Dillon. Another excellent selection of alltalking supports will also be presented tomorrow. One of the chief attractions will be the appearance of Mary Lewis, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, who, supported by a rfiale chorus, will sing “Swing Along, Sue,” “Dixie,” and

“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.” Then there will be an English comedy act by Val and Ernie Stanton, stars of the vaudeville and musical comedy stage. Other items will be jazz music by Abe Lyman and his orchestra; an ail-talking comedy, “Lucky in Love,” starring Clyde Cook, the Australianborn Hollywood player; and several new tunes by Rex Schepp, America’s master banjoist.

Alice White is a star whose appealing voice will be heard singing as well as talking in “Broadway Babies.” Her voice is a revelation. She sounds as good as she looks.