PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 15

PLAZA

“THE MIDNIGHT TAXI” Society drama, for the present at least, has lost on© of its most polished matinee idols. Antonio has gone over to melodrama. The handsome star portrays an adventurous bootleg king in “The Midni'ght Taxi,” a Warner Bros.* thrill drama, which comes to the Plaza Theatre this evening as the new part-talk-ing picture. Antonio Moreno has long been a prime favourite as an ardent lovemaker. His appearance opposite Greta Garbo in “The Temptress,” Clara Bow in “It,” and Constance Talmadge in “The Venus of Venice” are recent instances in which his Spanish fire won him acclaim. With Helene Cosello as the lady of his heart, Moreno’s wooing in “ The

Midnight Taxi” takes a different Antonio Moreno turn. He is essentially a man of adventure and daring, with a craving for two-fisted action. The story concerns the operations of a Pacific Coast bootleg ring, and was adapted to the screen from a storv by Gregory Rogers. John Adolfi directed. In the cast with Moreno and Miss Costello are Myrna Loy, William Russell, Bobbie Agnew, Tom Dugan, Pat Hartigan and Jack Santoro. This evening’s new programme will include several new Vitaphone alltalkie features. Chief among these are songs and items by Daphne Pollard, one of England’s famous comediennes, comedy by O'Hiell and Vermont; songs by The Harrington Sisters; songs by Allan Prior, the celebrated Australian tenor, and items by other worldfamous artists.