THE PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 14

THE PLAZA AND TIVOLI

TWO BIG PICTURES Underworld happenings seem to satisfy the innate craving of most people for the thrill of witnessing those happenings that are hidden from the ken of the average man or woman. Thus Milton Sills’s latest picture, “The Hawk’s Nest,” which is now showing at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres, grips immediately and maintains its hold to the end of the picture. Milton Sills, as the Hawk, does a remarkable and virile characterisation. A villainous heavy is played by Montagu Love, as Dougherty, -rival gangleader. in the underground haunts of the shady characters in a great city. To add to the festivities a number of mysterious Orientals are introduced, including the sterling actor Sojin. A beautiful girl of the night clubs, played with charm and dash by Doris Kenyon, develops a love interest in which the Hawk "is the opposite figure. A murder attributed to a pal of the Hawk, forms the nucleus of the story. The Chinese line up against a suspected gangster who turns out to be the real killer, and by a clever twist at the finish, his confession of murder is obtained and the accused man freed. The Hawk gets the girl and the audience is satisfied. “The Yellow Lily,” starring Billie Dove and Clive Brooks, is also being shown.

“The Yellow Lily” Is an adaptation of Lajos Biro’s play. Brooks enacts the role of a Hungarian archduke. Miss Dove that of a village beauty in Hungary. Alexander Kordaa, a famous Hungarian director, held forth at the megaphone. A picked cast, headed by Gustav von Seyffertitz, Nicholas Soussanin, Jane Winton, Bodil Rosing, Charles Puffy and March MacDermott, enacts other picturesque Hungarian characters.

Harry and Jack Warner personally presented A 1 Jolson’s “The Jazz Singer” at the London Hippodrome at the beginning of the year. The film was acclaimed one of the biggest features of the year. A 1 Jolson reveals hie own life in this production, for he, too, like the leading character in the film, is the product of the Ghetto who became a sensation on Broadway. Master Pictures will release “The Jazz Singer.”