‘NAUGHTY BUT NICE'

Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 3

‘NAUGHTY BUT NICE'

A NEW COLLEGE PICTURE. A picture witli the vivacious Colleen Moore in the title role is always popular with local picture goers, so that ‘ Naughty But Nice,’ which comes to the Empire , Theatre to-morrow, should find an appreciative audience. In this picture, Miss Moore has the role of Bernice Summers, a shy young girl who is sent from the comparative isolation of a Texas ranch to a finishing school. At the school she blossoms from an unnoticed wallflower into the school’s most popular girl, and arouses the interest of Paul Carroll, a handsome young batchelor. One day the principal of the school surprises Bernice and a friend in the lobby of an hotel, where they have gone to meet Paul, and they say that they are there to meet their parents, in order to keep up the pretence they are forced to enter a room which is occupied by Ralph Ames. Just as they are about to leave, however, the parents of Bernice’s friend arrive, and on the spur of the moment the Texas girl introduces Ames as her husband. Through a series of coincidences they again meet that night at a party, at which Carroll is also present. Ho is stunned when Ames is introduced as Bernice’s _ husband. Every effort is made to induce the bride and groom to enter the bridal suite. Finally, hpw-

ever, the tangle is cleared up and Bernice finds happiness with Carroll. In addition to Miss Moore, the cast includes Claude Gillingwater, Hallam Cooley, Kathryn _ M'Guire, Eclythe Chapman, and Clarissa Selwynne. An added attraction will be a new series of “ Stereoskopics.”