YE OLDE PIRATE SHIPPE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 15

YE OLDE PIRATE SHIPPE

The next big dancing attraction on Ye Olde Pirate Shippe will be on Saturday evening next, when (lan< ing will be enjoyed to a late hour to music by that exceedingly popular combination, “Ye Versatile Pirates Band.” There are few stars of the cin* rna world who would risk the possible danger of allowing three members of her cast to run “wild” in parts almost as colourful and important as her own, yet Norma Talmadge does this in “Now York Nights,” her first all-talking picture. Gilbert Roland, her leading man for the fourth consecutive time, portrays a characterisation that is almost a starring role in its own right. The same applied to John Wray, the distinguished New York actor-playwright who is the “villain.” T.ilyan Tashman as the chorus girl-friend of Miss Talmadge at almost overshadows : the star. V

l Ancient vases, wrought by the Incas ■ in years gone by, and so fragile that k they were packed for shipment in the . ! centre of a system of air-cushions, were > i among the strange “props” used in - ! filming The Bridge of San Luis Key. ’ r j by Metro - Gold wyn-Mayer. The t j ancient vases, which came from Peru, ■ | were lent to Charles Brubin. who - directed the new play b> Carlos * | Borcosque. noted Chilean writer, in • : whose family they have been for years, t i They are fashioned of pottery heavily i inlaid with soft gold, and through the ■ ; passage of the years the cement luu ? . so weakened that only the most g nti« , handling has preserved them in ; .cw.g.