ROXY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 756, 31 August 1929, Page 20

ROXY

“THE MAN I LOVE” The fine sporting and romantic ! talkie, *‘The Man I Love’* has been such a success at the Roxy Theatre that j it will be presented for another week, i As the story i=« told in the picture, Arien and Mary Brian truly love each J other. They marry, move to New York so Richard can get matches with the big fighters, and for a time they are perfectly happy in their little i home. One afternoon, at his training ! gymnasium, Arien is introduced to an j exotic societj* woman, Baclanova, who takes a great fancy to him. She uses ! her charms to ensnare Arien, and be- j fore long he has fallen for her. He ! neglects his home and his wife for j til is worldly woman. Mary Brian lias one of the most charming voices yet recorded for the ! screen. In The Man I Love," her lat- j est picture in which she is co-featured j with Richard Arien, she sings the i theme song, “Celia,’* especially written ! for her by the popular song writers, j Richard "Whiting and Leo Rubin. “The Man I Love’* i« an all-talking picture and Richard Arlen’s \oice is heard on the screen for the first time. The Roxy's programme also includes j & number of talking and singing featurettes, also the latest sound news. }