TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 14

TIVOLI

“PRISONERS” A captivated audience lives in the glamorous world of Bohemianism in picturesque Vienna and Trovaro in Corinne Griffith’s newest picture, now at the Tivoli Theatre. Ferenc Molner, the author of “Prisoners,” is always a name to conjure with in the theatre or on the screen. This story of the peasant girl who steals for love has been faithfully and intelligently adapted from the great Hungarian author's best novel. It is rich in colourful settings and its gradual development of character on the screen as in the book, is one of its signal merits. “Prisoners” opens in a night club of the lower class in Vienna, where Corinno Griffith, as Riza Riga, acts as entertainer. From there the story moves to a town near Budapest. There she finds a job as a waitress and starts life anew until she falls in love with one of the customers, a youngTawyer played by lan Keith, and eventually steals money to buy an expensive gown with which she hopes to attract his attention. This leads to various complications, and an unusual ending. An enjoyable supporting programme was also shown, including a thriller entitled “Harvest of Fate,” a comedy and U.F.A. gem.

“Snowing in” a whole German village was the odd task accomplished at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in the filming of “Wonder of Women,” Clarence Brown’s new production with Peggy Wood and Lewis Stone. The village was first shown as in spring, then snowed in for winter. Many tons of artificial snow were blown into the village with airplane propellors for the effect.