TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 14

TIVOLI

DRAMA OF DIVORCE Most folk are disposed to take interest in how marriage turns om , an some otiter couple. Dramas of doiU ' tic life have a currency in real Hf and close observers mav derive I closer insight from “Lew Wives.” the starred him at theiw this week. TO « The contemptuous father of first choice was not anxious for 5,* match, and as Lew would not lire his bounty, and he would not let h* daughter essay the cottage and hert* even if she had wished to do so *he was nothing further but for Lew , move on. So he moves on. to mJ,. Jessie Winkler, and marries her climb. ing out of the frying pan to fall ir .’' the fire, for, disgusted with himsehe plays truant until his child di and his wife divorces him. That but the opening of a dramatic storv* To call it a slice of life does not it any particular justice. Real Kf takes too many queer turns to be hitched to the solution of any partic lar story, but this might perhaps have been the history of the couple nexdoor. Frank Mayo and Ruth Clifford phv the leading roles. Ever-popular Hoot Gibson is thkingpin of the Universal- Jewel duction, “The Prairie King.” Minin;: and horses form the groundwork fothe story, and Hoot gets all the horsel manship he could possibly desire. Barbara Worth is his leading lady, and the third star is Albert Priscoe. Then* is plenty of clean Western air in the story, and it is sure to strike a very responsive chord with that large sec- | tion of picture-goers who so dearly love a Western romance. The fourth chapter of “The Collegians,” entitled “The Last Lap,” is also shown at the Tivoli this week.