“LONE WOLF RETURNS” AT STRAND ON FRIDAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 15

“LONE WOLF RETURNS” AT STRAND ON FRIDAY

The history of popular fiction records few characters who lived so vividly in the minds and memories of readers as lias “The Lone Wolf,” the leading figure in five of Louis Joseph Vance's widely-read novels, who is brought to life in the screen in “The Lone Wolf Returns,” starring Bert Lytell and Billie Dove, which comes to the Strand Theatre. In this picture, which is presented by Columbia Pictures, every one of the characters beloved by readers has been portrayed by a popular player. For instance, Gwen Lee will be seen as the dashing Liane Delorme, reckless adventuress; Freeman Wood, as the polished villain, Mallison; Gustav von Seyffertitz, as Morphew, ruthless schemer; and Alphonz Etlieir, as Crane, calm, cool but relentless headquarters detective. Louis Joseph Vance made Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, internationally famous, and Bert Lytell, who played the character in one of Vance’s stories ten years ago, made the celebrated romantic figure known to countless thousands of picture-goers. In the past ten years Vance has provided some amazing adventures for the “Lone Wolf.” He has been hunted and tracked by the police of almost all nations, and while he has been in narrow and desperate corners he* has always escaped. In “The Lone Wolf Returns” Vance has written the last great adventure of Michael Lanyard. There will be no more. Vance has said so himself. And audiences will find this adventure the most thrilling and satisfying of all. For in it he becomes enmeshed, not in the toils of those who have been trying to capture him, but in the velvety arms of a beautiful girl. The girl, Marcia Mayfair, is played by Billie Dove, and it is for love of her and what she represents that the “Lone Wolf” becomes —the Only Man for the Only Girl.