TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 15

TIVOLI

“THE RAINBOW MAN” “The Rainbow Man,” the attractions at the Tivoli Theatre, is an all-talking and singing screen romance, plentifully supplied with instrumental music which contains not one note of jazz. But the fact that it defies the great jazz tradition is not alone the reason for recommending “The Rainbow Man.” It is first of all a real, human story, simple, but true and plausible. In the second place, it contains acting of a high calibre in the hands of everyone in the cast. Eddie Dowling is a small-time minstrel man who adopts the little boy, Frankie Darro, after his father, George Hayes, is a victim of a vaudeville accident. Marian Nixon is the daughter of a small-town hotel proprietor. She falls in love with Dowling while his troupe is playing her town. The plot goes forward through sunshine and tears and comedy seasoned with episodic drama, until finally the lovers are joined in a touching scene wherein the rainbow of their romance shines through. The melodies of the production. “Rainbow Man,” “Smile, Little Pal,” and "Sleepy Valley,” are of a pleasing quality reminiscent of “Honeymoon Lane” and “Log Cabin of Dreams.” NEW WARNER BROS. FILMS Four all-colour all-dialogue Vitaphone productions, to be released by Warner Brothers in the coming months, are: “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” based on the great David Belasco stage success. This production has an all-star cast, headed by Winnie Lightner, Conway Tearle, and Ann Pennington. “Song of the West.”—John Boles and Vivienne Segal head the cast. “Golden Dawn.” starring W'alter Woolf. The picture will be based on Hammerstein’s brilliant operetta, and will have Noah Beery, Lee Moran, and othe.rs in its supporting cast. “Under a Texas Moon.” an outdoor story, the first of its type to be photographed in the new teehnicolour process.