NATIONAL AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 14

NATIONAL AND LYRIC

NEW PROGRAMME TO-MORROW “White Flannels,” the Warner Master Picture, which will be the chief feature on the new programme at the National and Lyric Theatres to-mor-row, has another great mother role for Louise Dresser, who plays poor Ma Broska, the wife of a Polish miner. Ma Broska has &£en young college then at the homes of the mine operators where she goes to do day’s work. Their natty clothes, their unhardened hands, their careless, jaunty ways, even their speech,

different from that Louise Dresser f he , has b |f, n used to hear, fills her with the determination to send her son to college, whether he will or not. Frank Broska, played by Jason Robards, is a boy who likes bis job. He loves a village girl, and has a pal, a miner, too, rough-and-ready as himself, but Ma wills that all this be changed. She learns, when almost too late, that education is not necessarily of schools, and that it takes more than what she calls “white flannels” to make a gentleman. “White Flannels” should be seen by all parents, but especially by those whose danger is the unselfishness which is so apt to breed its opposite in the children, for whom these same parents would often be willing to offer their lives. "Spoilers” of the West,” starring Tim McCoy and Marjorie Haw, will also be shown. ‘Adam and Evil,” a smart Metro-Gold - wyn-Mayer farce comedy, which will be released shortly, introduces a new comedy team in Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle. This new picture is a riot of laughs, thrills and marital complications, and Lew Cody gives a wonderful performance playing his first dual role.