EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 244, 5 January 1928, Page 15

EVERYBODY’S

“THE CRYSTAL CUP” Dorothy Mackaill has a most unusual role in First National’s fine production, “The Crystal Cup,” wherein she is cofeatured with the versatile Jack Mulhall. Adapted from the novel by Gertrude Atherton, revolving round the theme of sex-conflict, the story relates the experiences of a girl who, attacked by a brute at an early age, develops a general hatred of the masculine sex, and to repulse their attentions makes herself as boyish as possible in dress and mannerisms. Her final awakening to the natural reactions of her sex provides an unusual and highly dramatic plot. Jack Mulhall, as the young physician who is the cause of the removal of the inhibitions of the girl., has a strong role to interpret, which he does with considerable power, amazing in view of the fact that we have mostly learned to associate Mulhall with light comedy roles. “The Crystal Cup” is artistically produced, and strikingly costumed, while Dorothy Mackaill as “Gita Carteret” could hardly be improved upon. An elaborate costume ball, in which hundreds of players appear, fantastically garbed, is one of the great high-lights of the film, which constitutes a searching document of the innermost secrets of a girl’s soul.

Victor McLaglen, stalwart Captain Flagg of “What Price Glory*,” has turned sailor at Fox Films West Coast Studios and started work in “A Girl in Every Port,” under the direction of Howard Hawkes. The picture is unique in the respect that it will have four leading women. The first is Maria Casajuana, winner of Fox Films Beauty contest, who was brought to this country from Barcelona, Spain. Others in ‘he cast are Robert Armstrong and Frances McDonald*

Clara Bow says the worst hardship of her career was her determined attempt to eat “poi” from bowls with her fingers at the Hawaiian “luau” in ,4 Hula.” “It took me two hours to learn how to get it into my mouth, she says, “and it would take me two years to learn to like it.”

The picturisation of the nilliant comedy of the famous beauty of my - thology by Professor John Erskine, “The Private Life of Helen of Troy.” will conform to no motion picture standard at present in vogue, it i«i stated. It will, naturally, be unusual, bizarre, and fantastic in design and movement, and humorous; satirical, and whimsical in treatment. 4 Unconventionality will be the keynote of th* picture from the greatest detail to smallest,” said producer Carey Wilson. Production on “The Private* Life off Helen of Troy” is under vay. wit'* Maria Corda and Lewis Scone in thi featured roles