RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 15

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“SO’S YOUR OLD MAN” What is heralded as the fun feast of the year arrives at the Rialto and Regeni: (Epsom) Theatres to-night. W. C. Fields’s second Paramount starring comedy, “So’s Your Old Man,” tells the story of a small-town glazier who invents an unbreakable glass windshield. In his efforts to escape the continual nagging of his wife, and promote the successful selling of his invention, he meets with more trouble and mirthful adventures than one can possibly imagine. Gregory La Cava directed a cast, headed by the featured players, Alice Joyce and Charles Rogers. The screen story was adopted from Julian Street’s O. Henry Memorial Story of 1925. J. Clarkson Miller wrote the scenario. The second feature on the programme is “The Clash of the Wolves.” with the famous dog “Rin-Tin-Tin” in the star role. The picture shows Rin-Tin-Tin as Lobo, the leader of a pack of wolves, who are driven* from the forests of the high Sierras down into the cattle country by a tremendous fire, which, by the way, makes an amazing and thrilling screen spectacle. Lobo gets . befriended by a young borax prospector (Charles Farrell), who takes a leaf from the book of Androcles and extracts a thorn from the beast’s paw. The story concerns the clash of the wolf’s protector with the hunters who are on the animal’s trail. It is a. thrilling story, thrillingly told. The author, Charles A. Logue, who came to the fore with “Below the Line,” the last Rin-Tin-Tin picture, is likewise responsible for the new one, and he has made an excellent job of it. Written for the screen, “The Clash of the Wolves” tells its story in action. The action is sustained with dramatic pace through the fine direction of Noel Smith.