“GOD GAVE ME TWENTY CENTS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 15

“GOD GAVE ME TWENTY CENTS”

COMING TO TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY'S

Using the same ingenious devices for creating suspense which have already won him everlasting fame, Herbert Brenon has taken Dixie Willson’s tale of the New Orleans Mardi Gras, “God Gave Me Twenty Cents," coming to the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres on Thursday, and turned it into such a film as should make even the author’s heart beat with pride. It is comparable to the best pictures which have so far been produced and because of it both director and cast are destined to garner much praise. The four featured players—Lois Moran, Lya de Putti, Jack Mulhall and William Collier, junr.—each have “fat" roles to which they do full justice. Miss Moran plays the young waif, who falls in love with an uncouth

sailor, for all it’s worth. Mulhall is the gob who loved as he gambled, not too wiselv, but too many. The vamp of “Variety” has her best part since coming to America, as the woman who placed her happiness on the flip of two coins-—which she knew were crooked. Collier enacts a different sort of “heavy” after a series of hero roles. As for the story—it is a rich, colourful affair in which Mulhall marries the little girl he’d met during the Mardi Gras carnival, only to have his home broken up bv a former sweetheart, who walks into his life and then refuses to leave it.