PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 885, 31 January 1930, Page 14

PLAZA

“THE CARNATION KID” The screen fare at the Plaza Theatre, opening today, presents Bouglas Mac Lean in “The Carnation Kid,” a fast-moving dramatic story of love, politics, elections, underworld machinations and many other elements of life in a busy American city. Seen with Mac Lean are quite a number of well-known motion picture players, including Frances Lee, Lorraine Eddy, William B. Bavidson, Charles Hill Mailes, Francis McDonald, Maurice Black and a host of types portraying the politicians and the gangsters and others. This Paramount-Christie- Mac Lean production goes through a wide range of fast-moving scenes, beginning on a train when a typewriter salesman gets mixed up with “The Carnation Kid,” a famous gangster from a city where gangsters flourish. There’s a romance on the train as w T ell as a holdup; a chase of a girl in a car in the city, as well as a chase of the police and the well-armed underworld characters; election campaigns with their torchlight parades, a vamping stenographer who falls for “The Carnation Kid’s” stories of his exploits, and a typewriter salesman in considerable hot water all tlie way through. The entertaining talking supports on the same programme include songs by Tito Schipa. lyric tenor, an all-talking comedy. “When Caesar Ran a Newspaper,” a feature dealing with the songs of Schubert, and a Paramount Sound News.