"ANKLES PREFERRED."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 22 October 1927, Page 7

"ANKLES PREFERRED."

EVERYBODY'S, MONDAY. "Ankles Preferred" is the featured attraction at Everybody's Theatre next week. Suspicious wives, have a great deal to thank VViliiam Fox for in producing this busi«ess-cum-society comedy, and 'tos the creature man i* gifted with the ability to laugh at himself, laughs will bo issuing from all seats in the house. It is not so very often that a decidedly clever comedy is made; there are smart and snappy ones, but one with.a clever story, astute direction, and sophisticated acting is rare. "Ankles Preferred" comes to swell that thin, red line. The story goes like this: Norah wag ambitious, pretty, and rather naive. Two friends had she, Virginia, the simple, and Flo, the plain garden variety. But Flo could give advice, and she gave it. So Norah combined her own essential virtue and Flo's advice, and took a position as window-dresser in a women's department store, ruu by McGuire and Goldberg. McGuire took one long,llinge r ing look, and was struck with an idea, which idea emanatod from the Selby's worn by Norah. Norah was to spend" practically all her day in the- window, so that artless men might watch the pretty lady at her work. It was really most distracting, but •provocative 'of much comedy of the ultrasophisticated type, and that is what is most sought after in the entertainment world today. "Ankles Preferred" flows under many bridges before Norah's. ambition finds a dizzy accomplishment in her husband's kitchen. Madge Bellamy contributes a delightful piece of acting as Norah, endowing it with just the right amount of verve; Lawrence Gray is likeable as the flivver person while the McGuire of J.. Farrell McDonald is the most hilariously drawn bit of comedy acting seen for some time. Greta Garbo, who is soen for the second time in Christchurch, plays the leading role in "Tho Temptress," a Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr picture based on an Ibanoz book. It is a colourful and emotional Latin drama of the Paris boulevards and the Argentina pampas, with the beautiful and unconscious temptress working havoc wherever she goes. Miss Garbo acts with exquisito charm, while Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymoro, in th* chief supporting parts, are equally impressive. The Seleot Orchestra, under Mr Albert Bldgood, will play the following programme :—Overture, "No, No, Nanette" (Friml), *:' Lyric Suite", (B.ecce); "Fantnstique" (Foulds), "Fifth Symphony" (Tsch'aikowsky), "First Symphony" (Schubert), "Blue- Mazurka" (Friml), "The Damnation of Faust" (Berlioz), "Pelleas and Melisanda" (Sibelius); entr'acte, "Don't Sing 'Aloha to Me" (Donaldson); fox trots, "Deed I Dq" (Rose), "Barcelona" (Evans). Box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.