PLAZA AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 15

PLAZA AND TIVOLI

“HARD BOILED HAGGERTY” Thrills come thick and fast in the wartime aviation story, “Hard-boiled Haggerty,” now being shown at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres. Milton Sills, in the lead, has the role of an aviator who is accustomed of .rushing off to Paris after each victory with an enemy pilot, and becoming mixed up in various adventures. His part is that of a hard-boiled adventurer who takes what he wants with a grin, calculating good humour, letting the consequences take care of themselves. On one of his wild escapades he took refuge in a little French girl’s home —out of the reach of the pursuing police—and found himself gazing into the large, nut-brown eyes of a beautiful French damsel. From Germaine’s protection of him springs a love affair. Haggerty determines to reform, and he goes back to Major Cotton with this resolution. Preparing for being disciplined, he is rendered speechless when, instead, the major puts an arm around his shoulder, and pins a medal on him for distinguished service. He takes Germaine to an officers’ ball, where he presents her to Major Cotton. The latter recognises her as Go-Go, a notorious cabaret dancer, and, seeing that Haggerty is desperately ip love with her, tries to tell the ace that the girl is unfit fpr him. At the head of the supporting programme is “Laugh Trouble,” an enjoyably Harry Langdon comedy.