NATIONAL AND LYRIC
‘THE BOOB” Love, laughter, and knightly lore art; promised for the patrons of the National and Lyric Theatres, where Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer’s production, The Boob,” is being shown. It is a bubbling story of youth, with George K. Arthur playing the leading comedy role. As the youth Peter, who goes :nto the world imbued with the spirit the knights of old, he is said to w/e made one of his finest contributions to the screen. Although Peter has ancient Idt'as, be has many modern adventures in his navels, including a riotous time in a road-house, a desperate fight with bootleggers, and a thrilling automobile nde that ends in a wrecked poorhotise. Tha little country girl who has turned his love learns of her mistake the arrest of a city slicker, who 11 exposed as a bootlegger. Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara, J*lo scored so sensationally as the funtoviag marines in “What Price Glory?” are teamed again as mirth-provokers Ln “The Gay Retreat,” also oeing at rhe above theatres. The* »t«ry of this war comedy was written especially for them by William Con-world-famous cartoonist.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 13
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185NATIONAL AND LYRIC Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 13
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