NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 12

NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Mary Astor lends her graceful beauty to the leading feminine role. Lloyd Hughes gives a vigorous portrayal of the ambitious young lover who seeks to win fresh laurels for* 3 his love on the football and battlefields. The supporting cast presents a wealth of well-known screen names, including Alec Francis, the ever-lov-able character actor of First National; David Torrance, Hallam Cooley, the charming Eulalie Jensen and Lila Leslie. In addition, the picture has the unusual distinction of showing the crack University of Southern California football team in action as part of the sequence. ’Several of these young collegians screened so well and showed such camera presence that they were given minor roles in the rest of the story. . F. Harmon Weight directed, under the production management of B. P. Fineman. On the same programme will be sho n the new Zane Grey film, “Forlorn River.”

“A REGULAR SCOUT” A picture made for everyone’s delight is “A Regular Scout,” an F. B. O. production starring Fred Thomson which is commencing a week’s run at the National and Lyric Theatres today. The Boy Scout organisation has a universal appeal: it interests men. women and children everywhere b>cause it is found to be everywhere. And the Thomson brand of western pictures has.one of the greatest audiences in the country, so very naturally the merging of these two tremendously interesting factors must create a picture which is the essence of perfect entertainment. Seven troops of Boy Scouts n« ler the guidance of Edward B. De Groot, scout executive, take part in the picture. Silver King, of course, is one of the outstanding features, and Fred has a new rescue stunt which has never been shown on the screen before. It eclipses in daring and novelty anything that Fred has attempted and proves to be a thriller of the first degree. The picture was made under the direction of David Kirkland, who also made the continuity from the story by G. F. Oxford The cast includes: Olive Hasbrouck. Mary Carr. Margaret Seddon. Buck Black. T. Roy Barnes, Harry Woods. Bob McKim. William Courtright.