NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 13

NATIONAL AND LYRIC

NEW PROGRAMME TO-MORROW Dolores Ccstello is starred in a melodrama of stormy waters—“A Million Bid,” a Warner Bros. production, which comes to the National and Lyric Theatres to-morrow. In “A Million Bid” Miss Costello is cast as a poor little rich girl, the victim of her mother’s selfishness. She is separated from the youth she loves. It is on the rich man’s yacht, just after marriage, that the boat goes down, bearing with it the mother, and, apparently, the bridegroom. The girl and her maid are finally rowed ashore. The youth, who is a surgeon, nurses her back to health, marries her. A child is born to the couple, then happens the unexpected. The sea gives up its dead. Again the fates whirl the two into a valley of despair. Then follow the most dramatic sequences of the tense, glamorous tale. “What Every Girl Should Know,” which will also be shown to-morrow, is the story of three orphans—Dave Sullivan, who is a truck driver; Mamie, his plucky sister; and their small brother, Bob—parts played respectively by Carrol Nye, Patsy Ruth Miller and Mickey Mcßan. In a motor accident Dave causes the death of another person. He is falsely convicted and sent to prison. The story has to do with the amazing and amusing way in which Mamie meets life’s problems. It is a human story of blended mirth and tenderness, and it has the punch of melodrama. Directed for Warner Bros, by Charles Reisner, the man who made Syd Chaplin’s “The Better ’Ole,” it is full of comedy that has made it one of the laugh hits of the season. The story was written by John Wagner and the scenario by Lois Jackson. Norma Shearer is busy on a picture something along the lines of “His Secretary.” Her present picture is being filmed under the title of “Cloaks and Suits.” Miss Shearer plays the part of a travelling saleswoman for a warehouse. Ralph Forbes, Bert Roach Della Peterson, William Bakewell’ Tenen Holtz and *Dore Davidson have the featured parts. * * • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is ready to start production of a new starring vehicle for Ramon Novarro, who recently completed “The Road to Romance.” The forthcoming story is an original screen story concerning a mythical European kingdom of modern times, with Novarro appearing as a young monarch. Harry Beaumont, whose successes include “Beau Brummel,” will direct.