CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 871, 15 January 1930, Page 15

CIVIC

MUSIC AND TALKIES In addition to an exceptionally amusing film, a fine musical programme is being presented at the Civic Theatre this week. One of the chief features is excerpts from the beautiful opera, “Rigoletto” (Verdi), played by Ted Henkel’s orchestra of 30 players. Then Fred Scholl plays selections on the grand organ, including “Dream Memory,” and “Automobilious,” a new and amusing novelty number. The stage band entertainment entitled “La Fiesta” features a number, of Spanish dances. The Civic Ballet dances the “Dance of the Shawl,” and Ramon and Madeline introduce the “Gaucho Tango.” Other items are the selection, “La Paloma,” by the stage band, a miniature tango dance by two tiny tots, Patricia and Kanui, and the dance “Acrobatic Bolero,” by Pedro and Edna. In the comedy, “The Fall of Eve,” complications are caused by the resolve of Tom Ford, sen., played by Mr. Jed Prouty, to entertain Mr. Mack, a prospective customer (Ford Sterling), at a night club. To this- end he takes Eve Grant, heroine, played by Patsy Ruth Miller, along. On that day the father has refused permission to his son, Tom Ford, jun., to marry the heroine. Mrs. Mack, played by Betty Farrington, insists on going along, so Mr. Ford, sen. is compelled to introduce the heroine to her as Mrs. Ford. The real Mrs. Ford was away from home. She happened to be listening over the radio, and hearing the announcer of the cabaret broadcasting station state that the playing of a certain piece of music was requested by Mr. and Mrs. Ford, she returns home immediately and finds her husband, the heroine, and Mr. and Mrs. Mack at their home. But things are straightened out when the son (.hero) announces that the heroine is Mrs. Ford, jun., he and the heroine having been married secretly. Reginald Denny undergoes the experience of falling in love with a “trial wife," whom lie lias never seen, in “Embarrassing Moments,” Universal dialogue comedy coming to the Civic next