NATIONAL AND LYRIC
BIG PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT Picture-goers who never miss an •opportunity of seeing Marion Davies on the screen will be treated to this young star’s most sparkling success, ’The Fair Co-Ed,” which will be shown at the National and Ly.rift Theatres to-night. “The Fair Co-Ed” (the last, a slang term for co-education, meaning both sexes educated together) is a MetroGold wyn-Mayer picture, directed by Sam Wood, who directed that great comedy “Rookies.” Against a real college background.
and in a story which Wood has presented with a master’s touch, Marion Davies for the first time presents the routine, the comedy, and the romance of college life from a girl’s point of view. The captain of a basketball team supplies the love interest for Marion
n Davies as “Mur--n. a nd Jane Winton as Betty, who tjoth have a secret “crush” on him. h Vn» Mport and adventure intermingle n this novel and gripping college romance. Johnnie Muck Brown is a newto the screen in the role of Bob; Thelma . Hill and Lillianne Leighton as a college girl and the respectively, are old tuvourites, and do good work in supporting the brilliant young star. “The Honeymoon Express,” featurIrene Rich and "Willard Louis, will 06 second feature on the programme.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 262, 26 January 1928, Page 17
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209NATIONAL AND LYRIC Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 262, 26 January 1928, Page 17
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