LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 15

LYRIC

NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT “Bent for Heaven,” the J. Stuart Blackton production for Warner Bros., which comes to the Lyric Theatre to-

night, is a screen adaptation of the Hatcher Hughes’s Pulitzer Prize play. This adaptation was made by Marian Constance Blackton, daughter of the director. The story takes place in the Carolina mountains. It deals with the misunder standings • caused by a religi- ; ous half-wit, and the dramatic intensity reaches its heierht. when a hne'e

height when a huge dam is shattered and the valley inundated. The cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller in the part of Jude, the sweetheart of the returned soldier; Johnny Harron, Gayne Whitman, Evelyn Selbie, James Marcus, Wilfred North and Gardner James. “Singed,” a Fox film starring Blanche j Sweet, will be the second feature on I the programme. “White Silence” will be Lew Seiler’s next picture for Fox Films. Becky Gardiner is working on the screen adaptation, and the production will be made under the supervision of Philip Klein. Seiler just finished “Wolf Fangs,” featuring the dog star Thunder.

Andre de Berangrer and Myrna Lpv have been added to the cast of May McAvoy’s production, "If I Were Single.”