PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 15

PLAZA

“LOVE NEVER DIES” 1 Colleen Moore gives the greatest performance of her career and one that overshadows anything seen on the screen in many months in First National’s big new special production, “Love Never Dies,” now at the Plaza Theatre. The company is to be con—gratulated on its triumph in bring—ing this great production to the screen so brilliantly, and on its good judg< merit in assigning Miss Moore to the stellar role. “Love Never Dies" is‘ not a war picture. It is a picture of. the effects of war and like all great pictures it is realistic, simple. \Ve see Miss lVloore as a. pathetic little figure caught in the maelstrom of the conflict. She loves a dashing “young aviator who flies away each morning to gamble with death and returns in the evening to laugh and joke about it. X’Ve know the war is somewhere in the background, ominous and foreboding, but that is forgotten in the (charming love story that unfolds before us. Jeannine loves her man and her man loves Jeannine, nothing else matters. “Love Never Dies” was originally entitled “Lilac Time," and is splendidly directed by George Fitzmaurice. It is based on the stage play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfln, and in its transformation to the screen with full sound and music synchronisation has gained a poignant, gripping realism that will long be remembered. A number of excellent short talkie features are aISU presented. There are some charming Southern songs by lViary Lewis, of the Metropolitan Grand Opera, New York, a humorous sketch by Clyde Cook, banjo items by llax Schepp. jazz by Abe Lyman’s Orches—tra. and lunnorous itelns by Va] and Ernie Stanton, a clever pair of English comedians.