TIVOLI
“PRISONERS” Ferenc Molnar, famous playwright and novelist, whose “Prisoners,” starring Corinne Griffith, is the current film at the Tivoli Theatre, ranks in the world of the theatre as second only to Bernard Shaw. Several of Molnar’s plavs. including ’The Swan and “Liiliom,” have been transferred to the
silver sheet, but “Prisoners” is the I first of his novels I to find its way to I the screen. Wil- I liam A. Seiter I directed and lan I Keith plays oppo I site the star with I Otto Matiesen in a I role of almost I equal Importance. | In “Prisoners” Oritflth has
Miss Griffith nas . , . . _ . the role of a Hungarian girl wh ° ls „ an entertainer in a gay Viennese night ciub and later a waitress in Korea pastry shop in the iucturesque little town of Trovaro, near Budapest. The part affords Corinne an excellent oppo r?unity for contrast, as she is just an adventurous coquette leading a. very Bohemian existence and latei an wakened woman fighting for a great fove and for freedom from the past, which has enslaved her. The bright supporting pictm-es include the thriller, “Harvest of Fate, a comedy gazette, and U.F.A- gem. 1
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 17
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