PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 182, 22 October 1927, Page 16

PRINCE EDWARD

“FIG LEAVES” “Fig Leaves,” the new Fox Film comedy-drama which opened at the Prince Edward Theatre last night, before an appreciative audience, has a modern setting, but for a delightful sequence it takes us back to that faraway time when Adam and Eve got the idea that two can live as cheaply as one, and decided to give it a try in the Garden of Eden. Men and women being what they are, life in Paradise was not different from the life of to-day. Even in those days the breakfast table was the battlefield for the first argument of the morning, which started usually over the stone “paper.” Adam wanted to see how Consolidated Fur was doing, and Eve was just as anxious to see the advertisements on the latest styles in fig leaves, for as usual she hadn’t a thing to wear. Olive Borden, who played Eve, the first woman, and also the modern wife, gave an excellent performance in her two strongly contrasted roles. The part of Adam, of Eden, as well as Adam, the modern plumber, is played by George O’Brien. The supporting cast includes the blonde-haired Phyllis Haver, who as the woman next door plays the role of the modern serpent; Andre de Beranger, whose portrayal of the man designer is a well conceived and capably presented comedy character: Eulalie Jensen, William Austin, Dorothy Dunbar, J. Clifford Rice, and Charles Conklin, who as Adam’s assistant added much to the merriment of the picture.