"ANKLES PREFERRED."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 24 October 1927, Page 5

"ANKLES PREFERRED."

EVERYBODY'S. TO-DAY. "Aukles Preferred" is the featured attraction at Everybody's Theatre this week. Suspicious wives have a great deal to thank William Fox for in producing this business-cum-society comedy, and as the creature man is gifted with the ability to laugh at himself, laughs will be issuing from all seats in the house. It is not so very often that a decidedly clever comedy is made; there are smart and snappv ones, but one with a clover story, astute direction, and sophisticated acting is rare. "Ankles Preferred comes to swell that thin, red line. The Btory goes like thU: Norah was ambitious, pretty, and rather naive. Two friends had she, Virginia, th..- simple, and Flo, the plain garden variety. But Flo could give advice, and she gavo it. So Norah combined her own essential virtue and Flo's advice, and took a position as window-dresser in Q women's department store, run Ivy HeGuiro and Goldberg. McGuiro took one long, lingering look, and was struck with an idea, which idea emanated from th" Selby's worn by Norah. Norah was' to spend practically all her day in tho window, to that artless men might watch the pretty lady at her work. It wa§ really most distracting, but provocative of much" comedy of tho ultrasophisticated tvpe, and that is what is most sought after in the entertainment world today. "Ankles Preferred" flows under many hridges beforo Norah's ambition finds a dizzy accomplishment in her husband's kitchen. Madge Bellarav contributes a delightful piece of acting as Norah, endowing it with just the right amount of verve; Lawrence Gray is likeable as tho flivver person while the MeGnire of ,7. Farrell McDonald is the most hilariously drawn bit of comedy acting seen for some time. Greta Garbo, who is seen for the second time in Christchurch, plays the leading role in "The Temptress," a Mctro-Goldwyii-Mnyer picture based on an lbanez book. It is u colourful and emotional Latin drama of tho . Paris boulevards and the Argentina pampas, with tho beautiful and unconscious temptress working havoc wherever sho goes. Miss Garbo nets with exquisite charm, while Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore, _in the chief supporting parts, aro equally impressive. The Select Orchestra, under Mr Albert Bidgood, will play the following programme:—Overture, "No, No, Nanette (Friml). "Lvric Suite" (Becce), "iantas; tique" (Foulds), "Fifth Symphony (Tsehaikowsky). "First Symphony" (S<sh»bert), "Blue Mazurka" (Friml), me Damnation of Faust" (Berlioz), Pelleas and Melisande" (Sibelius); entr acte, "Don't Sing Aloha to Mo" (Donaldson); fox trots. "Deed I Do" (Hose). Ba ,L o , e " lona" (Kvans). Box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where scats may be reserved.