ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 14

ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

“THE DELIGHTFUL ROGUE” “The Delightful Rogue.” which heads the programmes at both the Roxy Theatre, Queen Street, and the Crystal Palace Theatre, Mount Eden, is a nice little comedy drama. The recording is excellent and the dialogue brings many chuckles, keeping the audience iii good humour. There is mild suspense also. Mr. La Rocque’s voice is very good and the role suits him admirably. Rita La Roy is a charming heroine whose voice records well. The story revolves around' a comicopera pirate (hero) who is feared by everyone. He is supposed to be a woman-hater. With the knowledge that he will be killed if he should go into the waterfront town, he seeks entertainment where he meets the heroine, half owner of the cabaret and its chief attraction. He falls in love with her, but she is in love with a well-to-do American, who wants to take her back home with him. lie is sort of caddish in that he is brave only when tlier is no danger. He informs the troops that the hero' is to meet the heroine o nthe beach and has him taken to gaol. But the hero’s men who had entered the gaol, led the troops into the river and took the young American to the hero’s ships. Later the heroine comes to ask him to ire the young man. Pie makes a seemingly insulting proposal that they spend the night together. The heroine decides to stay in the room witli the hei*o till morning to test the young man’s love for her. He proves to be not so deeply in love when he thinks she is bad. But when he learns that nothing had happened, he takes the heroine away from the ship. She swims back to the ship and agrees to go with the hero. At the Roxy- Theatre a second big attraction is shown in “The Saturday Night Kid,” the latest talkie comedydrama by Clara Bow. The second attraction at the Crystal Palace is “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” the brilliant tale of New York night life, starring Plarry Richman.