CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 16

CIVIC

FINE PROGRAMMES Sue Carol enacts the leading feminine role in “The Lone Star Ranger,” Fox Movietone all talking romance adapted from Zane Grey’s thrilling story of the South-West, which is the feature at the Civic Theatre. George O’Brien portrays the leading male character. Others prominent in the large cast are Walter McGrail, Warren Hymer, Colin Chase and Caroline Rankin. The story deals with the thrilling adventures of Buck Duane, an outlaw, who joins the Texas Rangers and breaks up a desperate gang. The Civic’s programme also includes a number of enjoyable musical selections by Ted Henkel's Civic Concert Orchestra, and by Fred Scholl on the grand organ. Outstanding among the items on the supporting programme is the talkie film describing the arrival of the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and Lady Bledisloe, in Wellington recently. The remainder of the programme included two sound gazettes, with a budget of world events, a talking comedy. “Turkey for Two,” and a "Krazy Kat” cartoon. A remarkably popular feature of the Civic’s programme this week is the musical interlude between 7.30 p.m. and S o’clock, when varied selections are played by Ted Henkel’s Orchestra and by Fred Scholl Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, young Broadway star of “The Noose” and “Burlesque,” William Boyd, stage star of “What Price Glory,” and Betty Bronson, have the four featured roles in “The Locked Door' 1 the all-talking United Artists picture booked to open at the Civic Theatre next Saturday. An interesting sidelight on the two principal male characters in “The Locked Door” is that La Rocque deserts the ranks of screen heroes to play a “gentleman villain,” while Boyd leaves stage villainy to assume the “hero” role. The picture wgs directed by George Fitzmaurice, and concerns the exciting adventure of a young wife found locked in the room with a former sweetheart dying from a pistol wound.

“Only the Brave,” starring Gary Cooper, has been completed at the Paramount studios. “Only the Brave” depicts the Old South in the days of the civil war. Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, Morgan Farley, Elda Voelka and William le Maire head the stellar supporting cast.