PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 15

PLAZA

“THE GLAD RAG DOLL” A particularly large audience enjoyed the screening of "The Glad Rag Doll" at the Plaza Theatre again on Saturday evening. There is comedy interspersed throughout the picture, and considerable pathos. Most of the pathos comes from the heroine’s act in accepting £2,000 from the hero’s family lawyer supposedly for the purchase of love letters the young brother of the hero had written to her, but in truth to make good, cheques the young man had forged and thus save him from being- sent to gaol. There is more human interest in later scenes, where the hero, having been informed of the heroine’s noble act, is shown calling on her and begging her forgiveness for having misjudged her. The comedy comes from the heroine's ingenuity in disclosing the fact that each member of the hero’s family was far from being an angel. For instance, she notices that the aunt is a kleptomaniac, the- young brother, who wanted to marry the heroine, had forged cheques, other members of the family having other faults. The uncle, impersonated by Albert Gran, is the only one shown to be human. A brilliant collection of short talking and singing featurettes are also presented on the programme. They include a Paramount Sound Gazette, with record of all the latest world news; a Vitaphone two-act play entitled "Stool Pigeons"; new songs by Jane Pursell, who is known as “Hollywood’s Radio Girl," and finally, sea songs and chanteys by Gus Reed and his male quartet.