PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 16

PLAZA

“SHANGHAI LADY” COMING The double-feature talkie programme now at the Plaza Theatre, will have its final presentation this evening. This includes “The Lone Star Ranger,” a splendid outdoor talkie based on a Zane Grey novel, starring George O’Brien, and “Nix on Lames.” a comedy of the private lives of stage players. The customs of the Orient are not the customs of the Occident, and therein lies much of the appeal of Universal’s “Shanghai Lady,” starring beautiful Mary Nolan, which comes to the Plaza Theatre on Saturday. Such a resort as the “tea-shop” of Madame Polly Voo, in which much of the action of the all-talking picture occurs, may be all right in Shanghai, but in America its doors would not be allowed to remain open a single day. But “tea-shops” of this kind are common throughout the Far East—-gathering-places where come drifters and adventurers from the four corners of the earth, to be welcomed and entertained by girls of all nationalities who have drifted there likewise. Typical of such drifters are Mary Nolan as Cassie Cook, and James Murray as “Badlands” McKinney. RATIONALIST ASSOCIATION The New Zealand Rationalist Association, who have been presenting entertainments in the Majestic Theatre every Sunday evening, will present a similar entertainment in the same theatre on the evening of Good Friday. There will be one or two short films, a lecturette by the well-known lecturer, Mr. Oliver Mason, on “The Myth of the Resurrection,” and finally the screening of the splendid British film of the war, “Poppies of Flanders.” The films will be accompanied by suitable music Under the auspices of the same association, there will be a lantern lecture by the noted Australian Rationalist orator, Mr. J. S. Langlev. in Uie concert chamber next WedneY day evening.