MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 893, 10 February 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE GIRL FROM HAVANA”

Chasing jewel thieves who escape from Los Angeles on an ocean liner bound for Cuba via the Panama Canal and attempt to smuggle their loot into Havana would appear to be a fulltime job for a girl detective. Yet that is what pretty Lola Lane undertakes in “The Girl from Havana,” Pox adventure drama that is having a most successful season at the Majestic Theatre, and before victory crowns her efforts, as of course it does, there are enough thrills for five ordinary dramatic screen offerings. Paul Page, who will be remembered for his clever work opposite Miss Lane in the Fox production “Speakeasy," is again the leading man and adds many new laurels to his fame. The picture was filmed under direction of Benjamin Stoloff in Cuba and on the high seas, aboard a regular liner between Los Angeles and Havana, and the backgrounds are all that could be expected under such perfect conditions. In the supporting cast as included Kennth Thomson, Natalie Moorhead, Warren Hymer, Joseph Girard and Adele Windsor, all of whom gave a splendid account of themselves in the various characterisations of the drama, which is by John Stone and Edwin Burke.

The chief items on the entertaining supporting programme are “The Irish Fantasy,” a selection of Irish airs played by Dr. Reisenfeld’s Orchestra of 120, an all-talking comedy, “Dancing Sobs,” a novelty sound cartoon, “The Skeleton Dance,” and Fox Movietone News.

Joan Peera and Henry Wadsworth, the romantic juveniles in “Applause,” have been selected to support Moran and Mack, the Two Black Crows, in their second talkie.