PRINCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 15

PRINCESS

TWO FINE FILMS “The Love Thrill,” the UniversalJewel farce comedy starring Laura La Plante, which opened yesterday at the Princess Theatre, is one of the most amusing pictures to be shown here in many, many months, if the appreciation expressed by last night’s audience may be used as a criterion. For tho first time we find the insurance salesman, pardon, saleslady, as Laura La Plante does the selling, brought £o the screen as the main character, and that character takes its place with the mother-in-law, the policeman and the bride as a laughgetter. The fun begins when Laura goes right into a rich bachelor’s apartment on New Year’s Eve in order to sell him a policy. She poses as the widow of liis best friend and gets the policy, but also gets into mix-ups galore when her “husband” arrives to report his death greatly exaggerated.

Tom Moore, a film favourite of many years, gives an excellent portrayal as the “husband.” Bryant Washburn plays the part of the wealthy bachelor and Jocelyn Lee that of his girl friend.

Ken Maynard, the “ridin’ fool” of western pictures, is the star of “The Red Raiders,” the Charles R. Rogers production for First National, which is the second feature on the programme. It is Maynard’s first of a new series and is the best the handsome cowboy hero has yet appeared in. The music ably rendered by the Princess Orchestra, under the baton of Mr. Howard Moody, during the evening included “Indian Love Call” (overture) ; ballet music from “Hiawatha” (Coleridge Taylor); “A Princess of Kensington” (Ed. German), and several new foxtrots.