PLAZA
“RIVER OF ROMANCE” Charles Rogers plays dual characterisations in his latest all-talking Paramount picture, ‘‘River of Romance,” which is now at the Plaza Theatre. He is seen first as the soft-spoken youth who returns to his homeland in the South after having spent most of his life in the East. Later in the picture he becomes the “notorious Colonel Blake,” blustering gambler and riverfront bad man of the Mississippi. Subsequent events show that his “badness” is, in reality, feigned and that he is not the terror that all his acquaintances had supposed him to be. Richard Wallace, genius who directed “Innocents of Paris,” famous picture starring Maurice Chevalier, was also the director of “River of Romance.” The supporting talkie items also constitute an excellent entertainment. They include a Paramount Sound News, songs by Madame Rosa Raisa, star of the New Y'ork Grand Opera, an alltalking comedy, “The Night Court,” and a very amusing singing cartoon, “The Sidewalks, of New York.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 15
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