TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 772, 19 September 1929, Page 16

TIVOLI

“PRISONERS” In “Prisoners,” the best known of Ferenc Molnar’s novels, which has been adapted for the screen as Corinne Griffith’s latest starring vehicle, and is to be shown at the Tivoli Theatre this evening, the star will be supported by a distinguished cast. Her leading man is lan Keith, who will be seen as a handsome young attorney. Otto Matiesen will play a picturesque and over-dramatic Hungarian actor in a small repertoire company. Julanne Johnston, the daughter of Charles Cleary, who plays the prison warden, has the second most important feminine role.* Jean Laverty will be seen at Bella, an actress. Bela Lugosi, distinguished Hungarian stage actor, who has appeared in various Broadway productions since going to America, and recently created a distinct impression in California, in the stellar role of Dracula, makes his film debut in “Prisoners” as the suave and sinister proprietor of a boisterous \ ienna night club. In the big courtroom scenes, where Miss Griffith as a Hungarian waitress is tried for theft, Harry Northrup, who has to his credit 26 leading heavies on the legitimate stage, has the part of prosecuting attorney. SUBURBAN THEATRES \ At the Prince Edward Theatre this evening the films are “A Grain of Bust” (a tense drama of passion, starring Alma Bennett and Claire Windsor) also “Adam’s Apple” (a comedy of a honeymoon with a mother-in-law, starring Monty Banks). The Grey Lynn Cinema is showing “A Giant of the Mountains, a thriller, starring Maxist; also bright supporting films.