NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 253, 16 January 1928, Page 13

NATIONAL AND LYRIC

“WHAT EVERT GIRL SHOULD KNOW” For sheer naturalness and unforced tenderness, for bluff, hard - listed courage and loyalty and mirth, “What Every Girl Should Know,” now at the National and Lyric Theatres, is unsurpassed. This is partly because Charles F. Reisner, who directed Syd Chaplin in “The Better 'Ole,” directed it. Another reason, he was working with an exceptionally human story by John Wagner. Patsy Ruth Miller's deftness with the tennis racket and in outdoor sports generally, inspired the author to build the play especially for her. She is cast as Mamie Sullivan, “little mother” to two orphan brothers. The older is cast into prison wrongfully on circuihstantial evidence. The younger is committed to an orphanage, a fate which overtakes Mamie herself, for that matter. The funny, fighting ways in which she wins freedom for both of them, and for herself, makes an evening’s entertainment hard to beat. It is a simple, heart-warming story about a brave little family and about . Featured players are lan Keith and Mickey Mcßan, the child star. Others in the cast are Carrol Nye, Carmelita Geraghty, Lillian Langdon and Hazel Howell, It is a Warner Bros.’ production. “A Million Bid,” starring Dolores Costello, will also be seen on the same programme. BRITANNIA “ROSE OF THE GOLDEN WEST”

Monterey, California, a civilised community years before the revolutionary war, the site of California’s first capital, and one of the most impressive combinations of land, sea and trees in the Americas, furnishes the background far the action in “Rose of the Golden West,” now at the Britannia Theatre. Founded in 1770 by Father Serra, where he built there the second of California’s 21 missions, Monterey was California’s first real city, and was a more important community than San Francisco up to the time gold was found on the Sacramento River. From that time Monterey faded, and San Francisco became a glaring yellow light on the Pacific Coast. It was in Monterey in 1846 that Commander Sloat landed men from an American warship anchored in the bay, and with the aid of Thomas Larkin, American Consul, took possession of the capital. It was there that Robert Louis Stevenson lived and wrote. Monterey claims California’s first brick house, its first customs house, its first theatre and first whaling station. The story of “Rose of the Golden West” is built around the stirring historical events of 1846, and much of it was filmed on the very spots where the history-mak-ing action took place. The featured members of the cast of the story include Mary Astor, Gilbert Roland, Montague Love, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Flora Finch and others.