MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 891, 7 February 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

"THE GIRL FROM HAVANA”

On the broad, plain-lined avenues of Havana, amid the sugar plantations, at Balboa, in the Canal Zone, and on board a liner passing through the Panama Canal, scenes of “The Girl From Havana,” Fox production opening today at the Majestic Theatre, were filmed.

Benjamin Stoloff, director, and his players, with Lola Lane and Paul Page in the featured roles, were accorded every facility by Cuban officials, the Havana police, the commandant of Morro Castle, and other persons in public life on the beautiful island, to obtain the authentic backgrounds and scenic locales written intp the story. The result is a strikingly beautiful pictorial production. “The Girl From Havana,” played brilliantly by Lola Lane, is a detective who is sent from the Cuban capital by Jewellers’ Detective Agency to Balboa to intercept a passenger liner Havanabound upon which a gang of jewel thieves have taken passage from Los Angeles. They have with them the loot of a diamond robbery perpetrated in broad daylight upon a Los Angeles jewellery establishment, the intriguing incident with which the picture opens. Their attempt to land at Morro Castle before the steamer docks, and the denouement when the celver girl detective not only springs her trap, but finds a threatened romance of her own, marks a colourful and vastly exciting climax to this most unusual Fox production, Benjamin Stoloff, the director, is a veteran of the Fox organisation. His recent work was shown in “Speakeasv” with the same two stars. Plavers of note in the cast supporting Lola Lane and Paul Page in “The Girl From Havana,” are Natalie Moorhead, Joseph Girard, Warren Hymer. Adele Windsor, Kenneth Thomson and Juan Sedillo.

A most entertaining supporting programme of music and short talking and singing featurettes will also be presented.