ROSY O’GRADY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 15

ROSY O’GRADY

THE COLONEL’S LADY Is there a feeling of kinship between women of different strata of life who have never met? This is one of the things which may well be discussed after “The Telephone Girl” is seen. According to the scenario, a political battle approaches its climax on election eve. Mathew Standish, the probable winner, is being feted at his hotel. “Boss” Jim Blake, father-in-law of the present governor, Mark Robinson, comes to brandish a weapon in his face. It is not a gun, merely a slip of paper which both realise can mean defeat even at this late hour. Blake swears that a damaging story is being printed and will be read by every voter on the morrow. Then, knowing that Standish will immediately call the woman with whom he is involved, Blake tries to bribe the phone girl into promising to tell him Standish’s number. But she, realising what its disclosure will mean to the unknown woman, guards her secret even when being subjected to a cross-fire of questioning. Why does she do this? The answer will be revealed when Herbert Brenon’s new Paramount production opens. “The Telephone Girl” features Holbrook Blinn, Madge Bellamy, Warner Baxter, May Allison and Lawrence Gray. Elizabeth Meehan adapted the screen play from William C. De Mille’s success, “The Woman.”