PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 17

PLAZA

"LOVE NEVER DIES" Acclaimed everywhere as one of the greatest film epics ever produced, “Love Never Dies,” First National’s Colleen Moore special production, based on the stage play, and presented with full sound synchronisation, will commence its Auckland season at the Plaza Theatre this evening. “Dove Never Dies” was previously called “Lilac Time,” and is by all odds a great special and the most pretentious in which Colleen Moore has appeared to date. Already known as the screen’s' foremost comedienne, her role in this production establishes her on the topmost pinucle as a dramatic actress. The tenderness, pathos, and realism of her characterisation of the little French girl makes “Love Never Dies” one of the most discussed pictures of the year, and the Plaza is indeed fortunate in obtaining such an outstanding production. “Love Never Dies” tells of a wistful little French girl, Jeanine, who is both mother and sister to a band of young R.F.C. pilots quartered on her mother’s farm behind the French front. The story concerns the great love of little Jeanine for Captain Philip Blythe, and how they are separated by warfare aerial combat and by jealous aristocratic relatives. George Fitzmaurice’s direction of this colourful love* story is said to be I the best of his long career. » | The supporting cast of “Lilac ! Time” includes Gary Cooper, hero I og “Beau Sabreur,” “The Legion of the Condemned,” and other big. productions; Burr Mclntosh, George Cooper. Cleve Moore, Kathryn McGuire, Eugenie Besserer, Emile Chautard, Jack Stone and many others. Another excellent selection of alltalking supports will also be presented this evening. 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 male 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 i the vaudeville and musical comedy ; stage. Other items will be jazz music | by Abe Lyman and his orchestra in a [series of popular hits: an all-talking | comedy, “Lucky In Love,” starring Clyde Cook, the Australian -born Hollywood player; and several new tunes by Rex Schepp, America’s master banjoist.