PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 881, 27 January 1930, Page 14

PLAZA

“LUCKY STAR” The first talkie by the popular romantic team, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and a beautiful story reminiscent of “7th Heaven,” is now at the Plaza Theatre in “Lucky Star,” a picture which delighted the large audiences on Saturday. The tale opens showing Janet working on the farm of her widowed mother. The child, uneducated and under-developed morally, steals, fights and lies. Then comes the war, and the telephone linesmen of the neighbourhood hustle off to enlist. The boss linesman becomes a sergeant in his outfit, and Charlie is cne of his men, just as he was with the telephone company. The sergeant shirks his' duty when it is time to go up the front line, and Charlie takes his place and is wounded, losing the use of his legs. Then back to the home town again, and the little girl and the wounded ex-soldier first become friends, and finally sweethearts, so that when the mother insists on her daughter marrying the burly ex-sergeant, the hero miraculously recovers the use of his legs in time to “sock” the sergeant on the chin and take the girl into his arms. The first half of the entertainment is equally enjoyable. It includes a number of bright talking and singing featurettes, such as a Paramount Sound News, a talkie comedy-sketch, “The Royal Pair,” by the Rooney family, selections, “In an Arabian Night Club,” by Cherniavsky’s famous jazz band, and another talkie comedy, “The Treasurer’s Report.”