TIVOLI
“SOFT CUSHIONS” ON THURSDAY “Something new under the sun” is exactly what Houglas Mac Lean will be offering at the Tivoli Theatre on Thursday in his refreshingly novel Paramount comedy, “Soft Cushions.” Abandoning the formula developed by several screen generations of comedians, Mac Lean successfully pioneers in a brand new field with this story from the pen of the late George Randolph Chester. Against the pictorially beautiful background of the Orient, Mac Lean, in the role of a romantic young “Get Rich Quick 'Wallingford,” plays a laugh-a-second comedy composed of equal quantities of romance, thrills, guffaws, chuckles and good old-fash-ioned laughs. The picture avoids the confusion of characters that has marred previous attempts to win laughs in Oriental costuming, and Director Eddie Cline, who piloted Mac Lean in “Let It Rain,” has maintained the fast tempo demanded of present-day comedy. Sue Carol, the Chicago beauty MacLean discovered and placed under a long-term contract, heads a notable cast, w r hich includes Richard Carle, well-known musical comedy star. Albert Gran, Wade Boteler, Russell Powell, Frank Leigh, Nigel de Brulier, Albert Prisco, Boris Karloff, Fred Kelsey, and [ others.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 242, 3 January 1928, Page 15
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187TIVOLI Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 242, 3 January 1928, Page 15
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