ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 914, 6 March 1930, Page 18

ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

“PAINTED FACES” A splendid film of the glamour of stage and circus life is now being presented at both the Roxy Theatre, Queen Street, and the Crystal Palace Theatre, Mount Eden. At the beginning of the story an actor, “The Great Roderick,” is found murdered behind the scenes at the theatre. Buddy Barton, a fellowartist, who had been heard to threaten the man’s life, is arrested and charged with the crime, being found guilty at the subsequent trial. The manner in which the intervention of an unforseen event brings about his release is told in an entertaining plot. The cast supporting the star. Joe Brown, includes Helen Foster, one of the principals of “Gold Diggers of Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver, Lester Cole, Sojin, Jack Richardson and Howard Truesdell. At both theatres a programme of specially selected short talkie featurettes is being presented. BIG PICTURES AT LYRIC “Hotel Imperial,” the great film starring Pola Negri and now at the Lyric Theatre, is a tempestuous love drama played against the sweeping spectacle of the world war. Romance behind the lines, with the fate of armies and a girl’s love depending on the sacrifice of her reputation. “Life’s Circus,” the second big attraction, is a sensational European circus story. “THREE LIVE GHOSTS” AT GRAND “Three Live Ghosts,” starring Beryl Mercer. Joan Bennett and Claude Allister, continues to delight audiences at the Grand Theatre. “Three Live Ghosts” is one of the most entertaining talking pictures to come out of Hollywood. Everyone will quake with laughter one minute and will thrill with suspense the next as the shell-shocked “Spoofy” and his merry buddies return to Old England only to discover they are supposed to be ’“dead.” It is not long, however, before all London learns that, if anything. the “ghosts” are very much alive. Matters reach a gripping climax when “Spoofy” breaks into his own home, robs his wife’s jewels and kidnaps his own son, having mistaken himself for someone else. GREY LYNN CINEMA “The Shop Worn Angel,” a sound and musical synchronised picture, with many dialogue scenes, is the attraction at the Grey Lynn Cinema this evening. This is an enjoyable tale of a New York chorus girl’s infatuation for a soldier, starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper. A splendid supporting programme is also being presented. FLYING ANGEL MISSION Friends and supporters of the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen are invited to a musical evening and presentation of report at the institute, Navy League Rooms, this evening. The speakers will be his Grace the Archbishop, and Sir George Richardson. Musical items have been arranged by the Victoria League.