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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 995, 11 June 1930, Page 14

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TWO BIG TALKIES A splendid vehicle is provided for Clara Bow, the “It” girl, in the picture, “The Saturday Night Kid”—her third all-talking production, which comes to the Roxy Theatre today. The play deals with the lives cf the lads and lassies who earn livings in big departmental stores. The “It” girl herself is “The Saturday Night Kid.” It is a role that calls for a full range of the emotions. She rages, she pouts, she loves. She wears coy costumes and formal ones. The second attraction on the same programme is “The Delightful Rogue.” La Rocque is seen as Lastro, the Latin pirate, who steals a yacht. “The Golden Rule,” and turns to plunder a group of tropical isles. There he meets and kidnaps Nvdra, a beautiful red-headed dancer, whose refusal to join the popular panic at this presence has intrigued him, in “The Delightful Rogue.” Rita La Roy, once a vaudeville singer and dancer, and now said to be on her way to stardom in Hollywood, is seen opposite La Rocque. She sings several original numbers, including “Gay Love,” by Oscar Levant and Sidney Clare, the Radio Pictures songwriting team responsible for “My Dream Memory” in “The Delightful Rogue.”

BRITANNIA, THREE LAMPS The current attraction at the Britannia Theatre is a programme including two all-talkies. The first of these is “The Mississippi Gambler,” a colourful tale of life on board the old palatial riverboats that plied up and down tho Mississippi River. Joseph Sehildkraut as an unscrupulous gambler is the star of this colourful melodrama. The second feature is “Harmony at Home,” an amusing tale of the home life of an average American family. WEST END AND MT. ALBERT The splendid British picture at both the West End Theatre, Ponsonby Road, and the de Luxe Theatre, Mount Albert, “Atlantic,” has been attracting large audiences. It is the film version of the story concerning the wreck of the Titanic in 1912. The film is well produced and the photography excellent. Good supports are shown at both theatres. PRINCE EDWARD Jack Mulhall, erstwhile a screen comedian of great popularity, is more than likely to double that popularity in dramatic roles. He portrays two parts of great power in “Dark Streets,” the First National and Vitaphon© picture, now at the Prince Edward Theatre.