THE STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 13

THE STRAND

TWO BIG PICTURES A programme to please all picturegoers has been arranged for the Strand on Friday. It has an excellent comedy, entitled “Exit Smiimg," and a thrilling ! drama of New York’s sporting circles, •Hogan’s Aliev.” You will laugh, and the world will laugh with you, at “Exit Smiling.’ Every element that contributed to its making was rich in laugh possibilities. First the story, then the star, and the director. Beatrice Lillie, England’s most delightful stage comedienne, is the featured feminine player. In private life this brilliant actress is Lady Robert Peel, wife of a distinguished peer, and a leader of exclusive society. London, Paris, and New York idolised her as the star of “Chariots Revue,” the famous musical show. To see her screen work, flashing with merry wit j and drollery, sparkling with original i tricks and inimitable stunts; to see ; her burlesque of low-stage life; to watch her through seven reels of excruciating comedy antics, is to become ; a devoted worshipper. Exit smiling? | You’ll exit roaring.’ Harry Myers creates a gale of laughter as well. He is one of the best comedians on the screen, and as a ! foil to Beatrice Lillie’s wit is excellent in this picture. Jack Pickforcl also | has a leading part. “Hogan's Alley,” the screen version of Gregory Rogers’ thrilling story of life on the east side of old New York, and of the conflict between young love and wealth, has been picturised by Warner Brothers, a firm that always guarantees a high standard of film entertainment. Monte Blue, the star, appears as a young uish pugilist, the idol of the alley. and Patsy Ruth Miller as the pig-tailed terror with whom he falls in love. Willard Louis is a treat as her old Irish : father, and Louise Fazenda is more ! amusing than ever as a saucy Broadj wayite.