TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 15

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

LAST DAYS OF “WEDDING MARCH” Only two more days remain for Aucklanders to see Erich von Stroheim’s tine film of Vienna before the war. entitled “The Wedding March.” Fay Wray and Erich von Stroheim himself have the leading roles. “The Wedding March” is more than a romantic story of the love of a cavalry officer for an innkeeper’s daughter, for it is a living reconstruction of the colour, gaiety and pomp of Austrian life before it was ruined by the war and by poverty'. Such great pageants as the Corpus Christi procession have been re-enacted, and the apple orchards on the Danube are brought to the screen in all their sweetness.

“Red Lips,” a sparkling story of college life, will be shown at both theatres on Thursday. Charles Rogers and Marian Nixon are the costarring team.

This is the first appearance together of the youthful film couple and they make an admirable pair of lovers. Their romance in this vimful comedy has been called a “song of youth.” Miss Nixon plays the role of a carmined flapper, her first part in which she is not a “nice girl.” Rogers is an unsophisticated college undergraduate. . “Red Lips” is an amazingly frank picture, but told by Director Melville Brown with understanding. He portrays youth as few directors have been able to do. Tho second picture on Thursoay will be “Children of the Ritz,” one of those light comedy-dramas made so well by Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. It is the storv of a .rich girl suddenly made poor and marrying her former chauffeur, recently made rich.