EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S

“CRAZY MAIZIE” It is seldom that we have the pleasure of seeing a new British star who seems so certain of world-wide success as Lilian Harvey, the English danseuse, who has already made her name in Germany. Her first picture, “Crazy Maizie,” was shown at the Everybody’s Theatre last evening. It is not only that she is extremely attractive, but that she has personality, brains and acting ability. She evidently understands tie character she is playing, and lives it for the moment. It is safe to prophesy not only a big success for the film itself but a very big future for the star. The farcical plot is not a remarkable one, but Richard Eichberg - has invested . With a sparkle that is sometimes risque, and a swiftness of action that is bound to appeal anywhere. Restaurant, cabaret, and music hall scenes are all excellently staged, and there is one sequence where the henpecked husband, having blacked his face to evade his wife, is forced on to the stage in a comic-nigger turn, which perhaps is the funniest incident of them all. Ail the artists in- the cast are very good actors, and this, together with the treatment, are the main reasons for its success. To return to Lilian Harvey. She Plays the role of a girl who pretends to be a demure young lady in order to conceal her stage activities as a Spanish dancer, and it says worlds for her ability that she completely alters her character, actions and exnressions for the change. Of an equally high standard was the second picture shown last evening “A -Harp in Hock,” in which the capable character actor. Rudolph Schildkraut, appears as a Jewish pawnbroker in Aew l ork.