NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 250, 12 January 1928, Page 15

NATIONAL AND LYRIC

NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT “What Every Girl Should Know,” the Warner production starring Patsy Ruth Miller, which is the chief feature at the National and Lyric Theatres tonight, is built about the havoc wrought by an arrest, conviction and imprisonment founded on circumstantial evidence. The picture has to do with the fortunes and misfortunes of three orphans, Mamie Sullivan, aged 17, played by Miss Miller; Dave, 21-year-old truck-driver, played by Carrol Nye, and little Bob, played by Mickey McBan. Dave, in an effort to avoid a child, who has run in front of his i truck, crashes into a limousine, kill- j ing its occupant. An empty flask (which Mamie fills with coffee every morning) is found in the truck and taken as evidence that the driver was under the influence of liquor. Dave is sent to prison for 10 years. The home is broken up and Mamie and Bob committed to an orphanage. It is Mamie’s charm and cleverness that finally interest a powerful young rich man of the town to further investigate the charges and to get the youth pardoned. Dolores Costello, conceded to be the most beautiful screen lady of the world, starred by Warner Brothers in the great melodrama of the sea, “A Million Bid,” will also be shown tonight. In support of Miss Costello are Warner Oland, dean of character actors, Malcolm McGregor, Betty Blythe, William Demarest, Douglas Gerrard and Grace Gordon. Michael Curtiz directed.