CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 17

CIVIC

“THE SKY HAWK” TOMORROW The current programme at the Civic Theatre will have its final screening there this evening. This includes the delightful play, “Love, Live and Laugh,” starring George Jessell, also the accompanying programme of musical numbers and talkie items.

With the warfare between Zeppelins and the London air defences during the World War as its basis, “The Sky Hawk,” which is coming- to the Civic tomorrow, is one of the most thrilling productions on record. Much of its interest is due to Us being the first all-talking Movietone romance of the world afliglit. The intensely dramaa.tic qualities of Llewellyn Hughes’s sensational story published as “Chap Called Bardell,” are thus strengthened.

Containing many spectacular scenes of London terrorised by the air raids, and with a gripping climax in which one of the giant airships is shot down in flames, “The Sky Hawk” ranks among the very few of its type and treats all the combatants impartially.

John Garrick, known on # the stage as Reginald Dandy, the youthful British actor aviator, acknowledged as the season’s talking screen find, is splendidly cast in the title role, and Helen Chandler, the former Theatre Guild star, is a delightful heroine. Gilbert Emery plays the third featured role with even greater effect than in “Behind That Curtain.” A notable supporting cast includes Billy Bevan. Joyce Compton, Lennox Pawl© and other established screen celebrities. John G. Ely stone directed this Fox Movietone sensation, while the stage direction was in the hands of Campbell Gullan, who wrote the screen treatment and dialogue in association with the author, Hughes. Tomorrow evening Ted Henkel’s orchestra will play extracts from “Migrnon” and Fred Scholl at the organ will play Dvorak’s “Humoresque” and “On the Road to Mandalay.”