EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 15

EMPIRE

“LET WOMEN ALONE” “Let Women Alone,” a Frank Woods production, to be shown at the Empire Theatre, Dominion Road, to-night, brings Pat O’Malley and Wanda Haw-

ley together again for their third joint feature. The popular pair recently app eared in “Bread,’ a Metro production, and “The Man . From Brodney’s," which was produced by Vitagraph. In ‘Let Women Alone” both parties have parts especially fitted to their individual talents.

O’Malley appearing as a breezy “go-get-’em” insurance salesman and Miss Hawley playing the part of an interior decorator. Other players in the cast are Ethel Wales, J. Farrell MacDonald, Wallace Beery, Harris Gordon, Betty Jane Snowden. Margaret Morton and Lee Willard. The picture was directed by Paul Powell under Woods’s supervision.

Gag-man to a group of crooks is Larry Semon's latest job. He is playing a comedy role in “Underworld,” Ben Hecht’s sensational story, and it is part of his impersonation to obtain laughs out of such hard-oase characters as George Bancroft, Fred Kohler and Clive Brook. Semon portrays “Slippy” Lewis? an underworld jester, [ in the Paramount picture.-

Marietta Millner, Viennese beauty, ; who was brought to Hollywood under optional contract by Paramount a few months ago, has been signed to a long term contract. Miss Millner's first work upon entering Paramount was the lead opposite Warner Baxter in the Zane Grey Western, “Drums of I the Desert/’ directed by John Waters.