TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 14

TIVOLI

“LEW TYLER’S WIVES” “Lew Tyler’s Wives” will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre to-morrow evening. Here is a story that takes on in its telling all the poignancy of real life. It is one of those slices of existence which might well have happened to you or to that couple that lives next door.

Lew Tyler and the three women who loved him are the principal characters about whom the complications revolve. As the picture opens we set' Lew and Virginia, a rich society girl whose engagement to him has just been announced. Through a series of circumstances Lew discovers that the lucrative position offered him by his prospective father-in-law is merely the purchase price he is paying to enable his daughter to marry the man she wants. This is the basis of the disagreement that estranges the two young people and leads to Lew’s marriage with Jessie Winkler. A liaison with a beautiful adventuress serves to distract him from the haunting memory of the true love he lost —but it also serves Jessie with grounds for divorce. How this web of marital discontentment is worked out toward happiness for Lew and the three women is a dramatic chronicle that is full of tense, situations.

John Gilbert, who has been in Washington, D.C., with his director, Monta Bell, making scenes for “Fires of Youth.” has returned to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where the picture will be completed. Jeanne Eagles, the famous stage star, makes her screen debut in “Fires of Youth,” and plays the leading feminine role, ,