AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBGDYS PICTURES. “THE TEASER” TO-NIGHT. ‘‘The Teaser” is in town—and she’s teasing laugh after laugh out of the audience at the Princess Theatre, where the new Universal comedy-ro-mance, starring Laura La Plante and featuring Pat O’Malley is showing tonight. It’s a lilting, snappy comedy surrounding a pretty girl who tries to flirt to annoy her aristocratic family a lover who takes lessons in etiquette and gets jealous—and in between the comical tribulations that spell laughs galore there rims a silver thread of romance—the play is really a Ipve story with comical interludes and a few thrills as decorations. Laura La Plante plays a 1925 model flapper with a flirtation complex that lands her in troubles galore—all the way from a threatened alienation of affections suit to a. scandal that involves her aristocratic aunt. Pat O’Mnl’oy swaggers through the role of a flashy cigar drummer, who falls in love with the blonde charmer, lakes lessons in etb|uette to become a proper husband for her—and then, when all reformed and able to cat with his fork, find: that lie’ll have to revert to the primitive and do a little fighting for his lady-love. And, of course, every film fan knows that fighting is one of the host things Pat does! The cast of the picture is chosen with special rare, and is admirably fitted to the zippy story. Hcdda Hopper is ideal, as the sophisticated society butterfly aunt, and AVyndham Standing, noted stage and screen star, appears in a convincing hit of character portrayal. Vivian Oakland, vaudeville beauty, and Margaret Qiiimbv, late of the Follies, are two interesting additions to the east—and both arc very easy to look upon. Other artists in the east include Walter Mc:Grail, Byron Munson, Frank Finch Smiles and other well-known players. William A. Seiter directed the picture, adding another triumph to his many Universal successes, among which “Dangerous Inii ociice” is notable. A Topical and a good comedy will also be shown, and selections by -Miss Williams’ Orchestra.