PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 June 1927, Page 15

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“PERCH OF THE DEVIL” The chief film on the programme commencing to-day at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres is “Perch of the Devil,” with Pat O’Malley in the leading role. It is a human story, strong in purpose—violent in contrast. Casually soominsr acre-old fallacy that men

do the choosing, he story begins when the woman takes her man. This character, played by Miss Busch, is ignorant ind uncouth, but wilful and commanding. Accustomed to the excitement of conquest, her lonely life as the wife of an ambitious

yo~*. 0 causes her to become irritable and dissatisfied. Her fondness for the man she thought she loved has apparently faded and she is glad when he allows her to go to Europe in company with a rich and beautiful young widow who pretends to be her friend, but who abuses the confidence of the wife because she covets the man for her own. Her deceit and treachery bear fruits. She wins the man. The wife wakes up to the fact that she really loves her husband at almost the same moment that her eyes are opened to the fact that she has been betrayed. Too long neglected, her husband has left her, providing her first with every earthly comfort, but has turned the estate over to his brother. The cast of “Perch of the Devil” includes Mae Busch, Pat O’Malley, Jane Winton, Theodore Von Eltz, Gertrude Oakman, George Kuwa, Lincoln Steadman. Martha Pranklin, and others. The story was adapted by Mary O’Hara from Gertrude Atherton’s novel of the same name.