RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 16

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“TOO MANY CROOKS” The efforts of an amateur playwright to gain realism for her crook drama by inviting four characters from the underworld to spend a week-end at her home, assists in supplying the plot of Paramount’s “Too Many Crooks,” a new screen feature which reached the Rialto and Regent Theatres last night. Mildred Davis believes herself capable of creating better crook melodramas than most of the plays showing on Broadway. To prove her ability, she obtains the services of shady characters, so that she may study them at first hand, and prepare her play from actual life.

Among those who visit her home and immediately start making it a headquarters for their Operations, are George Bancroft a sale-cracker; Betty Francisco, a blackmailer; William V. Mong, a confidence man; and Otto Matiesen, a pickpocket. The real trouble starts, however, when Bancroft is pursued by a squadron of police. Miss Davis’s attempts to keep them from discovering the crooks involves her in a series of difficulties, which cause roar after roar of laughter to arise from the audience.

Charles Farrell and Greta Nissen, Fox Film contract players, now engaged playing the leading roles in “Bride, of the Night,” at the William Fox Hollywood Studios, are 4 not engaged to be married. Denial of a report to the effect that they were, which was printed in a Hollywood film publication, was made by Vivian M. Moses, director of publicity and advertising for the Fox company, at the request of both parties mentioned.