CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1025, 16 July 1930, Page 16

CIVIC

“ARIZONA KID” TOMORROW The current programme at the Civic Theatre will have its final screening there today. This is headed by “The Czar of Broadway,” starring John Wray and Betty Compson, and includes items by Ted Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra and by Fred Scholl at the Civic grand organ. An entirely new programme of pictures and music will be presented at the Civic Theatre tomorrow. Among the many features of “The Arizona Kid,” the Fox Movietone Western offering with Warner Baxter in the title role which conies to the Civic Theatre tomorrow, is the fact that it has no “theme songs.” Both Baxter and Mona Maris, the leading lady, sing during the production, but their songs are old-world Spanish melodies, love songs that probably were composed long before Columbus ventured westward and that have a charm all their own. In the realistic dance-hall sequences, several popular tunes of the Eighties are sung in keeping with the period. “The Arizona Kid” is a glamorous tale of a debonair bandit and his love affairs, both laid and filmed in Southwestern Utah. The company of more than 200 players and technicians, under the direction of Alfred Santell, spent two months among the rugged grandeur of Zion National Park during production and all the interior scenes were taken in real buildings, erected on the deserted site of an old “ghost city” on the southern border of the Park. Carol Lombard and Mrs. Jiminez play leading roles in the picture and the supporting cast includes Hank Mann, Walter P. Lewis, Arthur Stone, Sidney Bracy and Wilfred Lucas.