PRINCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 15

PRINCESS

COLLEEN AS A CO-ED Colleen Moore, who has climbed to the top of filmland’s ladder by that peculiarly winning form of vivacity, has a chance of a lifetime in “Naughty But Nice,” which is heading the bill at the Princess Theatre this week. It opened yesterday to good attendances, and when the echoes of laughter reverberate around Auckland it is safe to prognosticate that Colleen will gambol to crowded houses for a whole week. As shy Miss Summers, of Texas, slie falls into riotous living on her first, night at an eastern college, and, going forth to steal some salt for a midnight “binge,” the extremely moral little girl runs into the college head. Natural guile is not lacking at this turn, so she pleads sickness, and is rewarded with a dose of castor oil. Donald Heed, leading man in the pictures, is a new luminary on the comedy, screen. He is a six-footer from Mexico City, athletic and dashing, and a very fitting co-star for the nippy Colleen, who comes into the story as a freckled, long-haired, spectacled Jane from the cattle country. But this wayback miss has a great charge of natural comedy packed away. The romance gallops along in fine style, and is certainly one of the best of Colleen Moore’s pictures that has come to hand for some time. From the vast preponderance of “drudge” parts which have been hers, Colleen has at last won to wealth, and comes to the screen as a ten-million dollar heiress. All jokes aside, that sum of money hanging over one’s head is enough to turn a brass statue into a slapstick comedian. But Colleen Moore does not need that to develop her pep. . 4f _. In support is Harry Carey, in The Masked Rider," and another chapter in the college life film. The Collegians.” This is the fourth story of the series, which weaves school athletics and calf-love into some amusing little music, please, is supplied by "The Snappy Three,” who combine in melodious songs.