TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 15

TIVOLI

“CONDEMNED” “Condemned,” Ronald Colman's secohd all-talking picture, which is now at the Tivoli Theatre, is an expression of dramatic, romantic and comic genius; for craftsmen excelling in each of those fields of human effusion are responsible for the completion of this new heart adventure of the screen’s most popular romancer. Ronald Colman, long established as one of the foremost exponents of the cinematic love drama, plays a dashing t'enegade who, while serving a prison sentence on Devil’s Island, meets the one and only woman under circumstances which imperil his life and her happiness. In striking contrast to the comedy-drama of his first talking picture, “Bulldog . Drummond,” “Condemned,” though not without its amusing moments, presents Ronald as the devil-may-care gallant of old who .-an the entire gamut of daring adventure to down the villain and win the girl in such pictures as “The Winning of Barbara Worth,” “Two Lovers,” “Night of Love” and “The Magic Flame.” The dramatic props of this new Colman opus have been set in place by expert technicians from the stage. There are Ann Harding, long a star player on the stage, who skyrocketed on the topmost heights qf popularity in the leading role of the gripping Broadway stage hit, “The Trial of Mary Dugan”; Dudley Digges, famed player and producer of the Theatre Guild; and Louis Wolheim, the immortal Captain Flagg of the original Broadway stage production of “What. Price Glory,” and one of screendom's top-notch character stars. The Tivoli’s new programme also includes several particularly fine shorter talkies.