TIVOLI AND RIALTO
“THE DESERT SONG” The brilliant and tuneful production. “The Desert Song-,” is now being shown at the Tivoli Theatre and at the Rialto Theatre, Newmarket. The story is that of a Frenchman who becomes a sort of Robin I-lood of the desert, helping to right injustices to the natives. Disguised as the Red Shadow, ho leads a band of desert tribesmen. His father, commander of the French garrison, seeks to capture him. He loves Margot, his father’s ward, and makes love to her in his own person and as the Red Shadow. In the latter character, he kidnaps her and, refusing to fight a duel with his own father for her possession, is deposed by the tribesmen and sent out in the desert to perish. He returns as the heroic vanquisher of the Red Shadow and Margot discovers that her two lovers are the same person. ‘■The Desert Song” is one of the best entertainments the screen has ever offered. Fast action and colourful drama are .supplemented with all of Sigmund Romberg's delightful music and the vocal solos, duos and choruses that helped the stage version to its great succes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1059, 25 August 1930, Page 15
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