PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 14

PLAZA

“ABIE’S IRISH ROSE” ‘•Abie’s Irish Rose” as a talkie is the attraction at the Plaza Theatre from this evening-. This is an adaptation of the delightful stage play which claimed Auckland some time ago. It will be remembered that the story concerns Rosemary Murphy (Nancy Carroll > and Abie Levy (Charles “Buddy” Ropers), who meet in France, lie a soldier and she an entertainer. They love each other and come to understand that nothing in the world can stop true love. The war over, Rosemary and Abie are married in a Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City, Abie takes Rosemary home to his father, Solomon Levy (Jean Hersliolt), an orthodox Jew, and introduces her as his sweetheart, Rosie Murpheski. Solomon is delighted and he arranges a home wedding after the Jewish custom. Then discord. Intolerance a n d bigotry step in. Rosemary’s Irish father (J. Farrell MacDonald), arrives with a Catholic priest just as a rabbi tinites thp young lovers in their second marriage. While their fathers argue, fume, fr t and seek to break the tie that binds the children, Abie and Rosemary get together with the kindly priest and the tolerant rabbi and the priest marries them once again. But the barrier of religion is r-o high and the gap between the families so wide that the young couple are left alone. They are befriended only by Mr. and Airs. Isaac Cohen (Bernard Gorcey and Ida Kramer), old friends of the Levy family. Then comes Christmas Eve. Air. and Airs. Cohen and the rabbi persuade Solomon to visit his new grandchildren. The priest urges Patrick to go to see his daughter and her children. The surprise party starts in bitter argument but ends in peace when Abie and Rosemary present their twins, Patrick Joseph—named for Rosemary’s father —and Rebeccanamed for Abie’s dead mother. The fathers forgive their children and shake hands. Tolerance has won. The new programme will also in- ; elude a number of entertaining short talkie features. Perhaps the most outstanding of these will he a duct from the opera “Lucia,” sung by Talley and Gigli, the famous operatic stars. Other items will be a singing cartoon, “0!u Alelodies,” and a singing and danciny act by a famous Russian troupe, entitled “Evening On the Don.”