BRITANNIA
“TOO MANY CROOKS” Laugh waves Jmingled with crime waves are the ruling forces of "Too Many Crooks,” the Paramount picture which is now running at the Britannia Theatre. The photoplay, which marks Mildred Davis’s return to the screen after an absence of almost four years, is a farce comedy of a wealthy debutante who believes she is capable of writing a good crook drama. To obtain realism, she invites four members of New York’s best underworld society to her home for a week-end party, that she may study them first hand—which is what starts the laughs, mix-ups and thrills. Through the entire production, despite its farcical nature, there runs a fine thread of romance between Miss Davis and Lloyd Hughes, who is cofeatured with her. Other members of the featured cast are George Bancroft and El Brendel. William V. Mong, Betty Francisco, Otto Matiesen. John St. Polls and Tom Ricketts head the supporting company.
More than 40 trained police dogs appear in several scenes of ’ The Dog of War.” Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's new film romance, which will be the initial starring picture of Flash, a new screen dog. The dogs have been trained by Austrian Army officers, who trained dogs for duty on the front during the World Wax.,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 15
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