PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

‘ HAPPY DAYS” George Olsen and His Music which became widely known through its recording work following “Kid Boots,’ “Sunny,” and other Broadway successes, makes its. screen debut in “Happy Days,” all star, all talking Fox Movietone musical romance, now playing to capacity audiences at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres. The band supplements the largest cast ever assigned by Fox Films to a single picture. Those playing the principal pans in the story proper include Charles E. Evans, famous minstrel man, Marjorie White, Richard Keene, Stuart Erwin, Martha Lee Sparks and Clifford Dempsey. Alphabetically arranged, the show sequences are Frank Albertson. Warner Baxter, El Brendel. Walter Catlett. William Collier, sen.; James J. Corbett, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, Richard Keene, Dixie Lee, Edmund Lowe. Sharon Lynn, George Mac Fa-r-1 i ne, Victor McLaglen. J. Harold Murray. Paul Page, Tom Frank Richardson. Will Rogers, David Rollins, “'Whispering” Jack Smith and Marjorie White. Entertaining supporting programmes are being shown at both theatres. At the Plaza there are several new short talkie items, and at the Tivoli “Why Bring That Up?” the laughable comedy, by the Two Black Crows.

Talking pictures, doing away with lettered titles, have made the former busy profession-of hand-lettering title cards almost obsolete in the studios. •In fact,” William Haines. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, remarks, ‘ handlettered title artists are now as plentiful as buggy-whip-makers.”