PLAZA THEATRE REOPENING

Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 11

PLAZA THEATRE REOPENING

MATINEE ON AUGUST S Lovers of the silent pictures will b# pleased to learn that the Plaza. Theatre, after being, closed for the past week, is reopening on Saturday afternoon of August 9. This popular theatre has been thoroughly renovated, and has had:; a new heating system ' installed. At present the theatre presents a very, busy appearance; contractors are. hard at work getting the .theatre in readiness for the opening. . The theatre is under entirely new management, and; the, Dunedin public can look forward to the best silent flips procurable, also a comfortable, cosy, theatre. The opening programme, a double-feature bill, is. of exceptional merit, and is headed with the ‘ Canary. Murder Case,’ With William Powell* Janies Hall, Louise Brooks; and Jean; Arthur. The story is taken frop S. S. Van Dine’s novel of the same name. Margaret Odell, known as “ The Canary,” Broadway’s most coldly ambitious show girl gold digger, is found strangled to death in her apartment* Philo Vance, whimsical society man,, fho has gained fame as an amateur detective, is brought in on the case. Who murdered the “Canary”? Was jt Mannix, the broker? . Who is Spotswood ? Was it Linguist, • the half insane doctor? Was it Cleaver, the poll* tician? The complications in this murder case are many, and will keep you in suspense until the end. The otp®*’. feature is ‘Two Flaming Youths,’ featuring Chester Conklin and W. _C, Fields in a screamingly funny comedy.-