PRINCE EDWARD
“THE MISSING LINK” “The Missing Link,” starring Syd Chaplin, will be shown to-night at the j Prince Edward Theatre. In this extravaganza, Syd settles his j comedy crown even more securely upon his shapely head. In fact, in this case lit is pounded -well down over his ears by his co-comedian, Akka (the famous chimpanzee, which is at present in New Zealand -with the Max, Moritz and Akka troupe), with whom many alleged humans should be proud to claim kinship. The picture has the distinction of being utterly devoid of any sublety; nothing is suggested; everything is shouted. Each laugh is pounded home with the same lusty, red-blooded vehemence with which Akka slams the unprotected dome of his brother, Dromeo. Aside from the roaring farce of the production, the picture is notable for Chaplin’s pantomime in several sequences, and for the uncanny and devilish intelligence of Akka.
Sally O’Neil and her sister, Molly O'Day, appear on the screen together for the first time in “The Lovelorn,” j from a story based on the famous . Beatrice Fairfax “Advice to the Lovelorn” articles. Both sisters h« f - - longed for a chance to play together, but the gods controlling the cinema world decided otherwise until Metroj Goldwyn-Mayer started to assemble | a cast for “The Lovelorn.”^
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 284, 21 February 1928, Page 14
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