PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 17

PLAZA

LAST DAYS OF “THUNDERBOLT^ George Bancroft's great dram a tie picture, “Thunderbolt.” will be shown I at the Plaza Theatre for only two more evenings. .Bancroft's role is that of an intrepid but lawless individual whose battle with society’ finally’ leads him to a. death cell in a penitentiary. Jost-f von Sternberg, maker of “The Lust _ ' • | Alien and Kay Wray’ play the romantic leads. | Sights and sounds of New York's j great negro metropolis. and of Sin | Sing’s “condemned row” furnish the j background for the story’ of a lighting he-man. j The short talkie features on the ! remainder of the programme will also | be shown only until Thursday. Anne Nicholas’s famous stage play, j “Abie’s Irish Hose.” has been transplanted to the screen its a part-talking film, featuring four important sequences with talking. A beautiful musical score has been prepared tor the picture by J. S. Zamocnik. The picture opens at the Plaza j Theatre next Friday. Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Jlersholt and J. Farrell i MacDonald carry the important roles with a superb supporting cast also i featuring Ida Kramer and Bernard Gorcey*. who appeared in the original stage show in its remarkable run of five and a-half years in New York “Abie's Irish Hose” is not a farce comedy, nor is it a heavy drama. It is a cross between the two. a crosssection of life itself, told in a series of dramatic scenes, to which a touch of comedy lightness has been added occasional 1 y. The four talking sequences features of the production that will 5 long be remembered.