PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 57, 30 May 1927, Page 13

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“MY LADY OF WHIMS” One of the outstanding bits of humour in “My Lady of Whims,” Dallas Fitz Gerald’s second production for release by Arrow Pictures Corporation which is now at the Princess and Tivoli, shows Donald Keith, hero, and Lee Moran, his buddy, imprisoned under guard in the captain’s cabin aboard a palatial yacht. The sturdy far who stands sentinel over them, flourishes a forbidding colt and his eternally watchful attitude bodes ill for the two prisoners. Are they down-hearted? Xo! As they sit beneath the very muzzle of the death-dealing “gat,” Donald Keith starts to whistle an ultra-modern meiodv. Lee Moran takes up the dulcet refrain and in a moment four feet are rhythmically jigging to the tune of “Sweet Georgia Brown.” WHAT A DANCE

And then Moran rises, and while the guardian “gob” keeps watch over him, goes into the intricacies of one of the greatest charleston dances ever executed upon any floor. Hither and yon he goes, jigging, swaying, undulating, with nimble feet, tap-tap-tapping in a barbaric rhythm. Music, they say, hath charm to sooth the savage breast, and it certainly has its effect upon the sailor sentinel. He, to, starts to swing and sway. Which is exactly what Moran has figured upon for as he goes past him a deft foot shoots out, somewhat in the nature of Maud of comic supplement fame knocking Si for a loop, and the next instant finds the sailor overcome and our two young friends free.