CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 17

CIVIC

LAST SHOWINGS OF “HAPPY DAYS” Youth is the predominating note in “Happy Days,” Fox Movietone all-talk-ing, all singing, all dancing and all joking romance, in a minstrel show background. Especially is this true in a sequence that presents 20 or more babies in a huge baby buggy and Walter Catlett and Lucien Littlefield singing a parody on Janet Gaynor's and Charles Farrell’s quaint number, “We’ll Build a Little World of Our Own.” “Happy Days” is now playing at the Civic Theatre, where it lias been drawing unprecedented crowds. It is a most lavishly staged and gorgeously costumed production that introduces personalities of Will Rogers, Janet Gajnor, Charles Farrell, Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Walter Catlett, William Collier, Sen., George Jessel, El Brendel, Marjorie White, James J. Corbett, J. Harold Murray, Ann Pennington, George MacFarlane, Tom Patricola, There are bright supporting items and musical selections by Ted Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra and by Fred Scholl at the organ. Hedda Hopper, one of the foremost character actresses of the all-talking screen, who portrays the role of Lady Muriel Wynckham in “Such Men are Dangerous,” Elinor Glyn’s first offering to the screen since it began to talk, which comes to the Civic on Saturday. “Such Men are Dangerous,” is a high power thrilling drama that centres about a multi-millionaire who disappears from his luxurious airplane while crossing the English Channel after his beautiful bride deserts him on their wedding night. After he is thought to be dead, he secretly visits a famous plastic surgeon and is completely remodelled from an ugly and repugnant individual to an upstanding and vhandsome man. The change is so overwhelming that even his wife to whom he makes love, fails to recognise him after the complete metamorphosis. Warner Baxter, of “In Old Arizona” fame portrays the role of the man, Ludwig Kranz, while Catherine Dale Owen, until recently a New York stage star, enacts the role of the bride who runs away. The supporting cast is a large one, the most prominent of which are Albert Conti, Hedda Hopper. Claude Allister and Bela Lugosi. The new programme on Saturday will include enjoyable supports and new musical items. Ted Henkel’s Orchestra will play “Die Schone Galatea” and Fred Scholl will play “The Blarney Stone” and one of his popular humorous items.