PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1026, 17 July 1930, Page 17

PLAZA

“THE BIG PARTY” A girl who yearns for romance, a boy with the same idea, a pair of golddiggers, two business partners with an eye for blondes, the partners’ wives with an eye on their lesser halves, a millionaire” with a penchant for installing young ladies in expensive apartments—these form a few of the human ingredients in “The Big Party,” John Blystone’s latest Fox Movietone production, which will make its local premiere at the Plaza Theatre tonight. Much of the story’s action takes place at the “big party” from which the film gets its name, and the balance of it against a kaleidoscopic background of metropolitan settings ranging from tenements to exclusive night clubs and modistes’ shops. The principal roles are played by Dixie Lee, Sue Carol, and Walter Catlett, with Frank Albertson, Richard Keene, and “Whispering” Jack Smith heading the excellent supporting cast that includes Ilka Chase, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Judels, Dougins Gilmore, and Dorothy Brown. Enjoyable talkie shorts will also be shown.

Rehearsals have started for Cyril Maude’s initial talking picture. “Grumpy,” at the Paramount studios. The distinguished English actor, who has appeared in the title role on the stago 1,300 times, is assisting in the work.