LUNA PARK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 20

LUNA PARK

OPENING THIS EVENING Bright open-air amusement is provided at New Zealand’s Coney Island Luna Park. The park will be open again this evening when big crowds are expected to be present . In addition to the many attractions which thrilled large numbers of people last season, such as the scenic railway and the popular dodg’ems, several new devices have been introduced. These include the monkey drome the pig-a-dilly circus, the death on the guillotine and the wall of death. There will also be many side shows and other novelties available, and an exce 1 - lent evening’s entertainment is assured. Special transport arrangements have been made for the convenience of patrons, and buses leave the foot of mYnutes the Park every few Further details are advertised. Dorothy Burgees, who scored as Toma in In Old Arizona,” and Marguerite Churchill, whose role of the girl in “The Valiant” caused so much HTTIu b ° th in and America! are both seen and heard in “Pieasure Crazed.” As in “In Old Arizona,” the new production has many outdoor scenes that are faithfully reproduced in sound, speech and pictoriallv including a polo game. An ingeniously designed robbery forms the background of the story against which the rapid progress of two conflicting love affairs is delineated in terse, effective strokes. Kenneth Mae Kenna, a stage plaver, rmi-e 6 U " T ma!e ro] “- Campbell C.ullan. Henry Kolker. Douglas Gilr;n<\ Frederick Graham are among V to be seen liesurd in nroI duction. * *

United Artists’ first musical pictorial short subject “The of 1812,” one of a series planned adjuncts to the film corporation imposing programme of feature all-talkies, recently was shown h® York before an audience of talking version of that popular _ i tinguished musicians and stage du-ser* and accorded an