“THE TELEPHONE GIRL”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 148, 13 September 1927, Page 17

“THE TELEPHONE GIRL”

COMING TO NEW REGENT From the scorching heat of the Sahara in “Beau Geste,” is a far cry to a tease modern melodrama with a political background. Yet the famous director, Herbert Brenon, has accomplished this, and excellently, too. “The Telephone Girl,’’ Paramount’s latest, to be shown at the New Regent on Friday next, is a stirring political drama, a story of warring factions and of an attempt to drag an honourable man s name through the mud —an attempt frustrated by the cleverness and bravery of a telephone girl. Madge Bellamy has the title role, and plays excellently in this, her first Picture for Paramount. Holbrook Blinn J® W ®H cast as the political boss, who does not think twice of resurrecting Past scandals to destroy an enemy; ''arner Baxter s the clean fighting enemy. May Allison is an old favourite makes a return to the screen, and Lawrence Gray, popular leading man, cast. .The story concerns Matthew Stanuish, who is running for the governorship of his State, while Jim Blake enampions the opponent, his son-in-iaw. They unearth a past scandal aDout Standish, and the telephone girl Jj l “he ho: l intercepts their plot. J-hin Ain.,- is holding out because srse is in love with Blake's son, Tom, sue is brought to their room, but de- ; plte lh eir efforts, she will not tell the ame of the woman in the case, the ct ® of which she had heard over the Phone. Her reason is because the sli e heard is that of Blake’s own * aughter, and not because she wishes 1 marry his son. She is about to be -frosted, hut a confession by the or nan clears the w ay. The Governor ;Jncl I . old Blake accepts a Alvarado, United Artists player, in ••o Gen for the role of Felipe in which Dolores Del Rio be starred. It has also been an- .' meed that Nils Aster will be seen rcle °* Allesandro, the other imwrtant male role in the story. • * • " yn have a background er uaed before in a comedy in his * ianunount staring picture “Rubsid hs Niagara Falls. Outnew’s reels and seenio picture a gara Ba hs ha- • never been seen in motion picture. Chester Conklin is Tn £ r ° ok leader in“. Rubber Heels" and p C y dma Todd is the bewitching prin-