CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 949, 16 April 1930, Page 17

CIVIC

“THE LOCKED DOOR” Featuring an all-star cast composed of Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William Boyd and Betty Bronson, “The Locked Boor” continues at the Civic Theatre and lives up to the elaborate reputation given it by the critical Press of other cities. The story of this all-talker is laid in modern New York and mingles an ample quantity of romance for the girls and action for the men into an entertaining whole. The recording is excellent, as is the photography, and little is to be desired in the performances of the featured players. Ann Carter, played by Barbara Stanwyck, the noted stage star, is betrayed into a compromising position by Frank Devereaux (Rod La Rocque). She marries Lawrence Reagan (William Boyd), fails to tell him the adventure with Devereaux and regrets it later. There is a shooting scene with Devereaux as the victim. Ann, who has been locked in the room with the dying man, takes the blame, fearing her husband had committed the crime. “The Locked Doer” is 100 per cent, entertainment. It is a United Artists picture directed by George Fitzmauriee. The programme also includes brilliant musical selections by Fred Scholl at the Grand Organ, and Ten Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra, which plays as an overture the famous cloister scene from “Kamennoi-Ostrow,” by Rubenstein. There is also a sound gazette and two talkie comedies.