STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 14

STRAND

BON TONS FAREWELL Unexcelled in entertainment is the Strand's new programme of pictures and revue. For the farewell flutter Robert Roberts’ Bon Bon Company has reserved one of its best efforts believing that there is nothing like a reserve of pep for the last dash to leave folk in hopeful expectation that some time the pleasant crew will return. Colourful and exhilarating as Bon Bon programmes are, this week’s

offering of request turns has assembled all the favourites. It is the c;eam of revue and epitomises the whole season of notable efforts. Louis Joseph Vance’s fine “crook” story has been dramatised in “The Lone Wolf Returns,” a gripping tale of how a notorious jewel thief was regenerated. Michael Lanyard was no churlish robber, but a gentleman

jewel thief, and his activities bore the unmistakeable Lone Wolf marks of finesse and daring. So it was that fresh and triumphant from the clutches of the police he flees for safety to a gay party in the home of a beautiful millionairess who saves him from the law and himself by acknowledging him a life-long friend. This was the regeneration of the Wolf. He fights clear of his old life in a smart episode ot detective work, and establishes his integrity as he establishes his claim over the heart of his millionairess. The role of the “Lone Wolf,” Michael Lanyard, falls to the lot of Bert Lytell, who is admirably cast for the strong masterful crook. He carries it to a thoroughly convincing conclusion. Billie Dove, as the rich and beautiful Miss Mayfair carries off her share of the honours, and so does the “crook” trio, headed by Gustave Von Scyffertitz, who, like many crook gangs, quarrelled themselves into gaol. For a real thriller, a melodrama with a grip and a throb, “The Lone Wolf Returns” has had few rivals.