PRINCE EDWARD
"ROAD TO MANDALAY” Almost every race on earth mingles in the bizarre Oriental scenes laid in Singapore in Lon Chaney’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vehicle, “The Road to Mandalay,” in which he plays a sinis-
ter ruler of an Oriental underworld. It gets away from the mysterious Far East of conventional drama, and with a grim realism plunges into the land of to-day —and through Singapore and Mandalay cross roads of the world. This new play, now
being shown at the Prince Edward Theatre, is a vivid mystery drama, presenting Chaney in what is perhaps the strangest make-up of his career; Lois Moran, Owen Moore, Henry B. Walthall, Kami yam a Sojin, and other wellknown players appear, under the direction of Tod Browning. D. W. Griffith will make as his first United Artists picture "A Romance of Old Spain.” Estelle Taylor will be one of the featured players in the new story. •The Biack Ghost,” veteran coastwise sloop, sailed the seas for the last time in "The Kid Brother,” Harold Lloyd's new Paramount comedy sensation. The vessel was beginning to show the disintegration of age and j was shortly due for the discard, when ; Lloyd secured it for a number of imi portant scenes in the picture, its end ( coming when it‘was beached on the | shores of Avalon Bay.-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 15
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