PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 727, 29 July 1929, Page 15

PLAZA

“LOVE NEVER DIES” Although it is a love story and a very beautiful one, "Love Never Dies,” First National’s great synchronised aerial special, now at the Plaza Theatre, is also a remarkably realistic drama of aviation in the Great War. Also it shows us Colleen Moore forsaking her merely lighthearted frivolities as the “New York Flapper” of once upon a time to become a kind of modern Joan of Arc—a little French village girl who inspired a squadron of British airmen. A pretty stbry, charmingly told, cleverly directed, and acted for all it is worth not only by Colleen Moore herself but also by Gary Cooper as the hero, and a stalwart company. In hpr interpretation of Jeannine, Miss Moore reveals herself as a dramatic artiste of the highest calibre. A number of most entertaining alltalkie items comprise the remainder of the programme. Mary Lewis, soprano of the New York Metropolitan Opera, sings "Dixie” and ‘‘Cax*ry Me Back To Old Virginny,” and, with a male chorus, "Swing, Along Sue.” Humour is dispensed in liberal quantities by Val and Ernie Stanton. English comedians, and Abe Lyman’s Orchestra provides a season of jazz. Clyde Cook, the Australian-born Hollywood player, appears in a slio.rt talkie sketch, and Rex Schepp, a really clever banjoist, plays a number of his own compositions.