CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 17

CIVIC

FINE PROGRAMMES ‘•Broadway,’* the current attraction at the Civic Theatre, is entertainment in a superlative degree—absorbing in story, vivid in characterisation, superb in its musical and colour effects. In the final scene the Paradise Club and everytihng in it, including the revue girls and their elaborate costumes, are shown in full technicolour. It is the forerunner of the motion picture of the future, showing what can be achieved by the screen in combination with sound and colour photography. An excellent supporting programme of music and dancing is also being presented. Ted Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra plays “Slavische Rhapsodie” (Friedman) and Fred Scholl at the grand organ plays “Souvenir” (Drdla). The new stage band entertainment which is entitled “Orientale,” features the brilliant trio, Ramon, Madeline and Pedro, and the Civic Ballet. “They Had to See Paris,” Will Rogers’s first all-talking picture, a Fox Movietone comedy drama, which is coming to the Civic on Saturday, is certain to bring added honours to Frank Borzage, who directed it; Bernard Steele, who staged it, and to Owen Davis, senr., who wrote the dialogue. The film, based on Homer Croy’s widely read novel, is said to be refreshing in its radical departure from hackneyed themes. Rogers, as Pike Peters, an Oklahoma hick, who, after becoming suddenly rich, takes his family to Paris, is a laughing riot. He is supported by Marguerite Churchill, Owen Davis, junr.. Rex Bell, IreneRich, Ivan Lebedeff and the vivacious and sparkling Fifi Dorsay, a French actress.