CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1013, 2 July 1930, Page 15

CIVIC

“HOT FOR PARIS’’ TOMORROW Does a wife ever forget a kind hus- j band? This question is raised in “The j Lost Zeppelin," the talkie-thriller at the Civic Theatre, featuring Conway Tearle, Vulli, Ricardo Cortez. In the all-Luiking production Tearle is seen as an explorer, madly in love with his young wife, who plans a trip to the South Polo in a huge Zeppelin and decides to take liis friend, a young naval officer, with him. 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.” Directly after finishing his work in “The Cock-Eyed World,” Victor McLaglen laid aside his marine uniforms for a time and visited the Fox wardrobe to bo fitted out in a nautical costume representing his new role, first mate of a windjammer sailing between Sydney, Australia, and Marseilles, France. It’s the role ho plays in Raoul Walsh’s latest Fox Movietone talking picture “Hot For Paris,” coming tomorrow to the Civic Theatre. The story conceived by Walsh was also directed by him and is admirably fitted to Me* Laglen’s athletic fame. The story chiefly concerns “John Patrick Duke,” a “sailor bloke” who. on shore leave, purchases a ticket in the Calcutta. Sweepstakes. He wins because “Dark Japan,” a long shot, comes under the wire first in the Derby. McLaglen does not know lie wins and the strenuous chase to find him and his equally strenuous chase from his pursuers forms the basis of many laughable incidents. When he finally is roped and tied and handed a million dollars the fun begins in earnest, for he goes to Paris with his Swede buddy, “Axel Olson” as played by El Brendel, on a spending spree. They meet Fifi Dorsay, the vivacious French girl of “They Had to See Paris” fame, and Polly Moran, who amuse the merry visitors. RIALTO, NEWMARKET “Live, Love and Laugh,” will be the chief talkie attraction at the Rialto Theatre this evening. The merry good humour and kindly philosophy of a poor Italian is the central theme with George Jessel as the star. The backgrounds are in the Italian quarter of New York, in Italy during the war, and in an Austrian prison camp. The supporting cast includes such well-known players as Lila Lee. David Rollins and Kenneth McKenna. Full supporting items will also be presented.