NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 11

NATIONAL AND LYRIC

SPLENDID PROGRAMME The new programme at the National and Lyric Theatres, although having only run for two days so for, has met with instantaneous success. “McFadden’s Flats,” a First National comedy-drama, is the chief feature. Dan McFadden is as Irish as his name implies. Going to America to eeek his fortune, he sets himself to the only task for which he seemed eligible —that of hod carrying. He decides that he will step upward in the building trade with his ultimate goal a handsome flat building, < ected by his own efforts, housing his family and bearing above its main entrance the words, “McFadden’s Flats.” Meanwhile Jock McTavish, a product of Glasgow, has arrived in America bound to prove that the land of the free can also be revealed as the land of the prosperous. He is in the midst of laying the corner-stone of his fortune when he meets, and is attracted, against his judgment, to the bighearted McFadden. McTavish becomes a barber by trade and a daily visitor to the savings bank by choice. Also, he becomes a fast friend of McFadden. It was only natural that the children of the two should be thrown together and that McTavish’s son should fall in love with Dan’s fair daughter. But McFadden, having increased his store of worldly goods, sends his daughter to a finishing school, which the youthful McTavish finds all but spelling “finish” for him. McFadden's ambitious flat building is struggling toward completion, when its guilder suddenly finds himself in financial straits. However, McTavish volunteers help, and the children of the friendly enemies are wed. The supporting programme includes a second feature, “The Dice Women,” starring Priscilla Dean, and pictures of the finals of First National’s screenstar quest.