PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 15

PRINCE EDWARD

“IS ZAT SO?” “Is Zat So?” in which O’Brien has the stellar role, is. Fox Films screen version of one of the biggest Broadway comedy-drama hits in years. It is a splendid vehicle for O’Brien’s talents as an actor as well as giving Hhim every opportunity to show his splendid physique to best advantage. For as the prize-fighter travelling in high society but at the same time fighting his way to champion ship ■ honours, he is Duncan Sisters seen stripped to j waist in several gruelling battles. ! I s 2at So?” is a sensational pic- j ture starred with laughs, packed with I suspense and with a tender and ab- j sorbing love story as its theme. It | will be shown at the Prince Edward i Theatre to-night in addition to "Topsy ' and Eva.” Following Horace Liveright's “Ham- | let” in plus-fours. Norma Talmadge's bobbed-haired “Camille,” and Robert j Sherwood s “The Road to Rome” in modern speech, comes “Topsy and Eva,” the Duncan Sisters’ first film. The picture is a parody on “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” with “Topsy” running away on snowshoes over the ice and Little Eva not even going to heaven. Uncle Tom is a jovial Negro who can dance the Charleston or Black Bottom with the best of them. Douglas Fairbanks is now bringing to a finish “The Gaucho,” his latest piei ture. The story is laid in South i America, and from reports should prove i one of Fairbanks’s most popular photo- j i plays. Eve Southern and Lupe Veloz ! have the tow important feminine roles. | Mother love is the theme of “White Flannels.” a production for release by i Master Pictures, featuring Louisa s Dresser and Jason Robards. Louisa i Dresser, who will be remembered for’ I her “mothers” in “The Goose Woman,” 1 [ “Broken Heart of Hollywood” and “The j Third Degree,” is cast as the miner’s ! wife who slaves and saves, secretly, to ; \ give her son the education she covets \ j for him. Lloyd Bacon directed. The! | cast includes Virginia Brown Fa ire, j Warner Richmond, George Nichols and I Brooks Benedict.