MAJESTIC

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

MAJESTIC

“ANKLES PREFERRED” “I like a man who doesn’t flirt,” said Madge Bellamy, as she sat on the edge of a trunk on the “Ankles Preferred” set at the Fox studio and discussed the story for which J. G. Blystone was producing the picture. The story deals with a young girl, whose beautiful ankles attract the attention of all and sundry males. “The men in the sto.ry are typical of all men, and the character I portray, Nora, is a girl who tries to make business success on brains alone. Well, she finds that it is her beauty or more specifically her ankles that win her preferment. Of course, it works out all right in the sto.ry, but, in real life only too often, the sensible, ambitious girl, finds her good looks a handicap because business men don’t take her seriously and flirt with her. Even when they do, they are more often than not, a great deal more interested in her as a woman than as a loyal and efficient employee. “That’s the point of the story. Kora is hired for her beauty, but thinks it is for her brains. Then comes the jealous wife and—but wait till you see it.” “Ankles Preferred” will finish its run at the Majestic Theatre to-nior-row night.