TIVOLI

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

TIVOLI

“RUBBER HEELS” AND FIGHT FILM

There are two graduates in “Rubber Heels,” the Paramount picture in which Ed. Wynn makes his screen debut. The first is Mr. Wynn himself. In “Rubber Heels,” which will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre to-night, the famous stage comedian plays Homer Thrush, full-fledged graduate of the Eureka Correspondence Detective School. The comedy is based on Thrush’s attempts to apply his detecting theories to the recovery of a chest of jewels from a band of thieves. The other graduate is Thelma Todd. She was graduated from the Paramount Picture School last year, and after doing small parts in several productions, she became a leading woman for the first time in “Rubber Heels” as the foreign princess whose jewels are stolen. Victor Heerman directed “Rubber Heels ” an original screen story by Ray Harris, Sam Mintz and Tom J. Crizer, adapted for the screen by J. Clarkson Miller. Chester Conklin is featured as the leader of the crooks. The film of the Dempsey-Tunney fight for the championship of the world, which will be shown at the Tivoli Theatre to-night, is described as the best fight film so far screened. The picture opens with close-ups of Tex Rickard, members of his staff, police, the army of ushers, and the immense stadium. Then the principals enter the ring and the big fight starts. The battle is seen blow for blow and the spectator is able to satisfy himself on the various reports and incidents in connection with the fight. The much-discussed incident in the seventh round, when the referee ordered Dempsey back to his corner, is clearly shown in slow motion, and spectators can judge for themselves as to the result of Dempsey’s action which many state cost him the fight. Wesley Barry, the red-haired, freckle faced youngster, who won fame in films several years ago, is coming back, not as a child player, of course, but as “Skippy,” a jockey, in Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s production of “In Old Kentucky.” Wesley appeared with Mary Pickford in “Daddy Long Legs” and was later starred in a number of independent productions. This will be his first venture in pictures for several