CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 17

CIVIC

“THE LOST ZEPPELIN” “The Lost Zeppelin,” all-talking, ailthrilling, with Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli and Ricardo Cortez heading a distinguished cast, is continuing its successful season at the Civic Theatre. This is the first picture dealing with a giant Zeppelin start-out on a big exploration trip, ever to be made in talking and sound form. The real story, however, revolves around a woman’s love. The woman in the case is the handsome young wife of Commander Hall (Conway Tearle) of tho Zeppelin. Tom Armstrong (Ricardo Cortez), a young naval officer, is asked by Commander Hall to accompany him on the aerial voyage, and he accepts. Hall s wife confesses to her husband that sho is in love with Armstrong after he has seen them embracing. She asks him for a divorce, but he suggests that she wait until the trip is ended. A splendid programme of pictures and music is also being presented at the Civic. Ted Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra plays selections from “Rio Rita,” and Fred Scholl at the Civic organ plays “Hymns from the Old Church Choir.” In Raoul Walsh’s production, “The Cock-Byed World,” El Brendel sang a few ditties. In Walsh’s current production “Hot For Paris,” in which Victor McLaglen is featured with Brendel and Fill Dorsav, the Swede comic lias been promoted by Walsh to sing a special number written for : him by Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie and called “The Cuckoo Song.” “Hot For Paris.” coming soon to the Civic Theatre, chiefly concerns the first, mate of a sailing vessel, played by McLaglen. He buys «i ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes, wins the capital prize in the Derby and cannot be found to deliver to him the million the winning long shot brought home. When all this money is delivered McLaglen proceeds to go on a spending spree in Paris and then things happen.