PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 17

PLAZA

TWO NEW TALKIES Booth Tarkington is never anything i but delightful, and to know that he is the author of “Mister Antonio,” which stars Leo Carillo and Virginia Valli at the Plaza Theatre today, is a guarantee of genuine entertainment. “Mister Antonio” was played on the stage by Otis Skinner, and now Leo Carrillo, one of the stage’s greatest dialect actors, makes his screen debut in an all-talking

Cinema Art Films production. Antonio Giovanni Rafaello Garibaldi l Mussolini Camara - dino is the name i of this lovable man, i who sells flowers in the winter in the crowded East Side streets of New York and with the first whiff of spring, turns to the open road with his hurdy-gurdy. His travels take him to a small town that boasts of its purity. To the tramps it is known as the town where the only charity is a ten-day sentence, and where even the cooties in the gaol “ain’t allowed to bite yeh on Sunday!” To this purity centre comes Mister Antonio to park his music box in front of the mayor’s house and rend the peaceful air of Sunday morning with the strains of “Onward. Chris-

tian Soldiers.” Tony and the mayor have met before, in a Hew York speakeasy when the mayor had forgotten that he “stood for purity,” and j that he was a “paragon of morality,” and Tony’s generosity and Good Samaritanism had saved the mayor’s spotless reputation. Daughters whose well-meaning mothers plot incessantly to get them “suitably married” would do well to insist that these parents see “Harmony At Home,” all-talking Fox Movietone picture, also at the Plaza. Based upon a successful stage plav, “The Family Upstairs,” “Harmony At Home” is the saga of the real American family. Marguerite Churchill, as Louise Hal- i ler, falls in love with Rex Bell, who j plays Dick Grant, a young bank clerk, j The story tells how her budding ro- I mance is almost blasted through the I well-intentioned efforts of mother, j Elizabeth Patterson’s role, to hasten a ! wedding day. "William Collier, sen.. ! famed comedian, heads the cast in the father role.