ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 15

ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

TWO TALKIES The double-feature talkie programme now at the Roxy. Queen Street, and Crystal Palace. Mount Eden Theatres, opens with “Geraldine, a part-talking picture which includes , a number of singing and dancing sequences. Marian Nixon and Eddie Quillan play the leading roles, and ap- . pear to advantage in the screen version of the well-known novel by Booth Tarkington. The story deals with the efforts ot a proud father to make his daughter j a leading social light by employing an ► attractive young man-about-town as j her tutor. The unexpected results of ! his plan make an attractive theme for | the picture. “The Leatherneck.” the second big feature, an all-talking picture, is one , Jof the most enjoyable films of the j i season, and is interpreted by a large , j cast of leading players. William Boyd, ; who won immediate approval by his work in “The Volga Boatmen." has I the leading role. The film deals with the adventures 'of a party of soldiers stationed in China. Three of the men mysteriously disappear, and they are posted as deserters. After a lapse of some considerable time, they reappear, one j carrying the lifeless body of the : second across his shoulders, while the j third, a raving maniac. straggles along in the rear. The first man is! promptly court-martialled, and the ex- 1 traordinary story he tells his superior ; officers makes a theme of unusual type, j The supporting cast includes Alan } ! Hale, Robert Armstrong, Frederick Kohler, and other well-known artists. . Boyd’s speaking voice is well suited to j the role which he portrays, and the i other members of the cast acquit them- ; selves well. Boro thy Burgess plays a most ; sophisticated American girl in the Fox ; ; picture. "Protection.” Her previous ! role. “Tonia.” in “Old Arizona." won ' her hosts of admirers who will eagerly j | await the latest effort of this talented ! i young actress.