KING’S THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 9

KING’S THEATRE

•‘LOVEY MARY.” “Lovey Mary,” starring Bessie Love and William Haines, finishes its run at the King’s Theatre to-night. It is the tale of an orphanage girl who takes care of her sister’s child when its mother is serving a prison sentence. TTnwilling to part with it when the mother is released, she flees from the orphanage to the Cabbage Patch. She hides there and lives in happiness until the law takes the child away to its dying mother. Mary is then given control over it, and returns to the Cabbage Patch and her sweetheart. The supporting programme is good, and' includes a news, screen snapshots, New Zealand scenio, and a comedy. The orchestra supplies appropriate music. TO-MORROW NIGHT BIG COMEDY—“HIS SECRETARY.” One of the season’s outstanding comedy dramas comes to the King’s Theatre ,with to-inorrow night’s screening, of “His Secretary,” a Metro-Goldwyn special attraction. The story is a modernised version of the Ugly Duckling theme, with twentieth century variations. Briefly, it centres around the romance of a typiste who was in love with her employer, and how her transformation from an unattractive girl into one of dazzling beauty, through the aid of clothes and modern beauty secrets, brought him to her feet. Norma Shearer has never done better work. In'the earlier scenes she buries her natural charm, but when she emerges from her chrysalis, that former homeliness only emphasises her great beauty. Her role in this picture is a brilliant revelation of her powers as a comedienne. Lew Cody well sustains his newlyacquired reputation as the , screen’s foremost light comedian, characterisation of the young business man whose sense of humour kept him single, until one girl made him realise the shortcomings of bachelor life, is a performance of distinct merit. Willard Louis, Karl Dane, Mabel Van Buren, Estelle Clark. Gwen Lee and Ernest Gillen are in the supporting cast, all contributing splendid portrayals.