"STOP FLIRTING."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 4

"STOP FLIRTING."

SPECTACULAR FIGHT FILM. QUEEN'S THEATRE. .. In epit« of ill appearances to the contrary, the raoat difficult picture to make is a successful comedy. Christie Bros.' latest offering, "Stop Flirting," is the big attraction at the Queen's Theatre to-day. The stars are Wanda Hawley and Jimmie Adams; The film is staged at a. luxurious seaside home of a young man of wealth, surrounded by a gay crowd of pleasure seekers. The husband becomes an outcast in his own home, the guesta occupying every available spot, and he appeals to his chum for aid. TLoy conceive 4 plan, in which the husband endeavours to cure his wife of flirting. She discovers his plan, and she makes him do a" pretty dance before she finally forgives him.

Also to be shown is the film of the sensational boxing contest which took place in New ' York, between Tom Heeney, heavy, weight champion of New Zealand, and Paolino L'zcuden, the Herculean Spanish woodchopper champion of Europe. The picture will have a strong appeal to Dominion sportsmen, as not only was it Heeney's first big fight in America., but it was his step ping-stone to other engagements which have placed him in the position of a possible contender for the world's championship. When- Heeney left New Zealand over two yeais ago for the purpose of seeking honours in the pugilistic world, he stayed over in Sonth Africa for a while and met and defeated Johnny Squires, the South African champion, who subsequently defeated (reorge Cook, the Australian champion. Hceney'e good showing in South Africa paved the way for engagements in England, and after cleaning up all the heavy-weights in sisrht, with the exception of the champion, Phil Scott, who asked impossible terras, he left for America. Paolino had proved his superiority over Continental heavy-weights, which did not cam him very largo sums of money, and decided to go to the country of big purses. He made good from the start and caught the public fancy as one who might eventually fight his whv to the ton of the tree. Reetrve at Webley's or 'phone 3312.